Great Quotes

"I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results"

George P. Baker

"No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given"

George P. Baker

"The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting"

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician

"It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"In the year since we brought things into the open with a clean breath of fresh air at City Hall, we have learned about corrupt spending practices and unethical conflicts of interest that waste your money... and keep Dallas from being the great city of our dreams"

Laura Miller, Politician

"I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in the treatment, cure, and prevention of disease can occur"

Michael J. Fox, Actor

"Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool"

Britney Spears, Musician

"There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein"

Gregory Peck, Actor

"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life"

Bette Davis, Actress

"By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"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"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"A great man is the man who does something for the first time"

Alexander Smith, Poet

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

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"It is always the adventurers who do great things, not the sovereigns of great empires"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide"

Tecumseh, Leader

"I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction"

G. H. Hardy, Mathematician

"My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall"

John Dyer, Artist

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"What you don't know would make a great book"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"I have a great time with my band and on the stage we get along well"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity"

John Le Carre, Author

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