Big Stick

Big stick may refer to:

  • Big Stick ideology, Theodore Roosevelt's diplomatic policy
    • Big Stick, West Virginia, a community named for the above
    • The nickname of the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61)
    • The nickname of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
  • Big Stick (band), an alternative music act who scored a minor hit in 1986 with "Drag Racing"
  • Big Stick Music, a record label
  • The Chinese monk-poet Fenggan; literally translated as "big stick"

Famous quotes containing the words big and/or stick:

    “Call the roller of big cigars,
    The muscular one, and bid him whip
    In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)