Great Quotes

"The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"I was an idiot in terms of career-building, but I had a great time"

Sally Kellerman, Actress

"I hope to have some more cracks at some wonderful roles before I go to the Great Beyond"

Sally Kellerman, Actress

"Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts"

Rebecca West, Author

"It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying"

Michel Hazanavicius, Director

"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"Obviously I'd love to work with any of these great directors because every time I've worked with them I've gained a tremendous amount as an actor. Each director has his own way of pushing you towards improving yourself"

Zhang Ziyi, Actress

"There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"I think most people read and re-read the things that they have liked. That's certainly true in my case. I re-read Pound a great deal, I re-read Williams, I re-read Thomas, I re-read the people whom I cam to love when I was at what you might call a formative stage"

James Laughlin, Poet

"I'm a great lover, I'll bet"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

"Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy"

Jacques Barzun, Educator

"We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good"

James Laughlin, Poet

"Dresses, I find, are impractical in social situations, but I enjoy wearing them a great deal on stage"

Brian Molko, Musician

"Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"I think the Internet, particularly the availability of information, is great. I do a lot of correspondence on-line and have a chat line to talk to my fans as well"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

"All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews"

Katharine Hepburn, Actress

"I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive"

Angelina Jolie, Actress

"To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody"

Norman MacCaig, Poet

"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy"

John Cleese, Actor

"My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out"

Chris Brown, Musician

"To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

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