Great Quotes

"A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections"

"Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family"

Monica Bellucci, Actress

"His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

"I love Africa in general South Africa and West Africa, they are both great countries"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"To have a great idea, have a lot of them"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

"Habit is a great deadener"

Samuel Beckett, Playwright

"In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob"

Salvador Dali, Artist

"There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs"

Saadi, Poet

"A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation"

Saadi, Poet

"Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great"

Chris Van Allsburg, Author

"Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition"

Adam Smith, Economist

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition"

Adam Smith, Economist

"New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process"

Joseph Priestley, Scientist

"I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"There are many experiments and a great deal of research that can be performed on the station that make a difference in our lives and we are committed to supporting this important vocation"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored can be just as good for a person as being lauded"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"Using rhetorical questions in speeches is a great way to keep the audience involved. Don't you think those kinds of questions would keep your attention?"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

"In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

"In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive"

Lee Iacocca, Businessman

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

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"When Jim Irsay called me five years ago, he told me, 'I want you to be our coach and help us win the Super Bowl.' He told me, 'We are going win it the right way. We are going to win it with great guys; win it with class and dignity. We are going to win it in a way that will make Indianapolis proud.'"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Jurist

"I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away"

Tony Dungy, Coach

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