Great Quotes

When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes ...

I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths pro...

But Hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns.

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, ...

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all...

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront u...

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for res...

I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vici...

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on t...

Nadal and Roger Federer have great respect for each other. I think Novak Djokovic gets under those t...

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't ...

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and isl...

It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and grea...

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great o...

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are...

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding un...

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without f...

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord,...

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold ...

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing th...

Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've he...

It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look pal...

Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. Yo...

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great tru...

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he...

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mys...

My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know gr...

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great i...

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousa...

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discov...

Magic to me is you make a movie and it's all great and it clicks, and at the end of the day you feel...

My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratc...

When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it...

I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too...

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great...

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about gre...

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarn...

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine...

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morni...

I think of myself as a mum who finds the time to go to work. I have to check myself for baby sick be...

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

I like art with a sense of humor. I don't have a huge art education to understand everything. I don'...

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to ex...

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying t...

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equal...

I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted ...

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're consta...

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was v...

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stan...

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing ...

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the fi...

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brou...

Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citize...

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a...

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: re...

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only ...

Edward Norton and I have known each other awhile. I just think he's the real deal, supremely talente...

I like being able to go to a local pub and have great food and particularly love pubs that welcome m...

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is ...

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's gre...

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the m...

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how...

I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It'...

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science f...

A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in sc...

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; y...

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, p...

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize l...

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great li...

Silence is a source of great strength.

I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. ...

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in bein...

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity fro...

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that ...

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American hist...

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your en...

Chrysler builds great cars.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know i...

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid ...

I grew up when I was 15 when I had my first opportunity in movies. I watched every great movie for a...

I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life ex...

I've been very lucky to have achieved a lot of the things that I dreamt of achieving as a young man....

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to West...

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of op...

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should ...