Great Quotes

"I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler"

Plautus, Playwright

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment"

George Byron, Poet

"Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals"

Jimmy Carter, President

"Only great minds can afford a simple style"

Stendhal, Writer

"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

"Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one"

Vladimir Nabokov, Novelist

"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"How great in number are the little minded men"

Plautus, Playwright

"God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement"

Marcus Garvey, Publisher

"How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?"

William Dean Howells, Author

"A great speech is literature"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well"

Elias Canetti, Author

"The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up"

William Dean Howells, Author

"In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"It doesn't look great if you cancel the reigning Best Comedy Program, you know, you're gonna take a hit from a... from sort of a public relations standpoint"

Will Arnett, Actor

"Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"There is a great correlation between music and images"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on"

Graham Nash, Musician

"The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

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