Great Quotes

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together.

I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis.

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.

I've never been really great at trusting anybody, just because of the way I grew up.

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

I think that what 'Oz' did is it spawned a great generation of television production. But people know its place in television and just in great dramas. It's the foundation of my career. Most producers, show runners, directors, and casting directors put me in movies based on my performance in that show.

The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands.

What's great is that starting a blog can get you lot of attention for your writing. But it doesn't have to be for anybody other than yourself.

I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to write. I wanted to try to make some more upbeat songs, so, I ended up gravitating toward writing songs with friends, which was a great learning process, and also we came up with great songs. Those are the songs that came out the most naturally.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

Small projects need much more help than great.

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

All great achievements require time.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.