Large-Scale Quotes

Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.

… a conspiracy on a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man.

I had imagined doing nuclear physics and cosmic ray work in greater style in peace time. To do modern physics in a small way is of no use of all.

At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

In the U.S., everything is big - it's like looking through a magnifying glass.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.

In 1492 Columbus knew less about the far Atlantic than we do about the heavens, yet he chose not to sail with a flotilla of less than three ships. . . . So it is with interplanetary exploration: it must be done on the grand scale.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

Bayern know how to celebrate on a big scale.

I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality.

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Instead of a few hundreds of thousands of men meeting each other in war, millions would now meet, and modern weapons would multiply manifold the power of destruction.

Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

It is easy to turn a scooter, but not a train with 40 bogeys. This is such a big country, changes are constant and widespread.

If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as the current answers don’t do, one has to grope for a new one, and the process of discarding the old, when one is by no means certain what to put in their place, is a sad one.

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

The production scale of 'Okja,' which I had never experienced before, was jaw-dropping. Not only the actors but also all the staff were experts in their fields.

We need to think bigger, dream bigger, and get bigger.

If you want to have a big impact, government is the way to do it. Just think of the number of people you can touch.

I love to paint and beautify the most unexpected of places - I've painted everything from doorways to trains but have always wanted to do something really huge and different.

We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.