Great Quotes

"I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space"

Jonathan Lethem, Writer

"When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners"

Zora Neale Hurston, Dramatist

"If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to 'mince about' was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united"

Martin Yan, Celebrity

"There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

"My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

"After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

"Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin"

Charles Darwin, Scientist

"Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world"

John Polkinghorne, Physicist

"He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living"

Herman Melville, Novelist

"The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces"

Marcel Proust, Author

"They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry"

Samuel Richardson, Novelist

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman