Big Idea may refer to:
- Big Idea Entertainment, an American Christian computer animation production company best known for "Veggie Tales" videos.
- The Big Idea, a Scottish museum
- The Big Idea (1917 film), a 1917 short comedy film
- The Big Idea (1934 film), a 1934 short comedy film
- The Big Idea (DuMont TV series), a 1953-54 DuMont TV show on science
- The Big Idea (TV series), a British reality television series
- The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, an American talk show
- The Big Idea (game), a marketing game produced by Cheapass Games
- Parti pris, a term in architecture for "the big idea" - "the chief organizing thought or decision behind an architect's design"
Famous quotes containing the words big and/or idea:
“My first big mistake was made when, in a moment of weakness, I consented to learn the game; for a man who can frankly say “I do not play bridge” is allowed to go over in the corner and run the pianola by himself, while the poor neophyte, no matter how much he may protest that he isn’t “at all a good player, in fact I’m perfectly rotten,” is never believed, but dragged into a game where it is discovered, too late, that he spoke the truth.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“A major misunderstanding of child rearing has been the idea that meeting a child’s needs is an end in itself, for the purpose of the child’s mental health. Mothers have not understood that this is but one step in social development, the goal of which is to help a child begin to consider others. As a result, they often have not considered their children but have instead allowed their children’s reality to take precedence, out of a fear of damaging them emotionally.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)