It was the biggest compliment I could think of at the time.

"That's the biggest professional compliment ever paid me," he says.

I want to give a big compliment to the organizers.

Q. First of all big compliments for what you do.

It is a big compliment for us that we are here.

But some saw the plan for a new museum as a big compliment to an area that had long been a neglected part of Manhattan.

"The biggest compliment I get is when visitors forget they're using a computer," he said.

And she thought he had just given her a big compliment.

"It's probably one of the biggest compliments I've ever been given," he said.

She'd given him a big compliment if he was willing to see it that way.