“The miracle of the world…the biggest thing that the English are doing anywhere.”
On British rule in India, quoted in Nicholas Mansergh, The Commonwealth Experience (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1969), p. 256.
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Salma Hayek (1966) Mexican-American actress and producer
O interview (2003)
Context: I want to direct a movie in Mexico, in Spanish. The story is about how when we're really young, our dreams are colorful and big and abstract and interesting and imaginative. As the realities of life hit, our dreams become so common. To dream big doesn't necessarily mean to imagine becoming the biggest movie star in the world. Dreaming big is about taking the simplest thing in life and enjoying it — and seeing it as the biggest thing that can possibly exist. … I work in an industry that is the first to kill this ability because everything is so celebrity oriented. I am part of a cancer. In my world, you have to be so beautiful, so skinny, so rich, so famous — and I don't believe you really have to be any of those things. You simply have to be who you are.
Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician
The Columbia River Collection (1941), Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
Variant: The world is digging, slavery's grave and when the job is done
This'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
Context: I'd better quit my talking, 'cause I told you all I know,
But please remember, pardner, wherever you may go,
The people are building a peaceful world, and when the job is done
That'll be the biggest thing that man has ever done.
“The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
“America is the biggest gang in the world.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)
“Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
David Cameron (1966) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech at the ninth World Islamic Economic Forum in 2013 - "World Islamic Economic Forum: Prime Minister's speech" Gov.uk (29 October 2013) https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/world-islamic-economic-forum-prime-ministers-speech <br class="br">2010s, 2013
“Goodbye, from the world's biggest polluter.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
Concluding a private address at the Tokyo G8 summit; July 12, 2008; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/2277298/President-George-Bush-'Goodbye-from-the-world's-biggest-polluter'.html <br class="br">2000s, 2008