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:

    “It is possible that the telephone has been responsible for more business inefficiency than any other agency except laudanum.... In the old days when you wanted to get in touch with a man you wrote a note, sprinkled it with sand, and gave it to a man on horseback. It probably was delivered within half an hour, depending on how big a lunch the horse had had. But in these busy days of rush-rush-rush, it is sometimes a week before you can catch your man on the telephone.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “One stick of kindling alone will not light a fire.”
    —Chinese proverb.