Great Quotes

"Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children"

Princess Diana, Royalty

"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious"

Zhuangzi, Philosopher

"You have learned a great deal — first of all: how to kill the enemy"

Yevgeny Prigozhin, Businessman

"All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction"

Marya Mannes, Journalist

"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Walt Disney was my great hero"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment"

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Actress

"Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of"

Kid Rock, Musician

"Two great things you can give your children: one is roots, the other is wings"

Hodding Carter, Journalist

"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects"

John Webster, Playwright

"I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6"

Loretta Young, Actress

"Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind"

George William Curtis, Author

"If we build something great, like we have at Travelers Group so far, a whole host of people benefit"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I've been working with them for a couple years and a couple of projects. Essentially Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is the chief litigator for this corporation, this Alliance, and their job is to prosecute corporate polluters of the great bodies of water in North America"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience"

Robert Caro, Writer

"That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"Truth is a great flirt"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great"

Lisa Leslie, Athlete

"Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them"

Jean Paul, Author

"Be great in act, as you have been in thought"

Jean Paul, Author

"After 14 years, it better be a real marriage, you know? We do have a great time together. We are really lucky"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"Slow, Deep And Hard was a great album, even though it was probably our least selling record"

Josh Silver, Musician

"Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that"

Gerard Butler, Actor

"It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career"

Henry Villard, Journalist

"The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"There is no more respected or influential forum in the field of journalism than the New York Times. I look forward, with great anticipation, to contributing to its op-ed page"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody"

Kid Rock, Musician

"We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government"

Zachary Quinto, Actor

"The spirit in which the offer was made must of necessity contribute to improving and alleviating the situation of the Jewish people without our renouncing one iota of the great principles upon which our movement is based"

Theodor Herzl, Journalist

"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game"

Billy Martin, Athlete

"More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book"

Ted Koppel, Journalist

"It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish"

Robert Herrick, Poet

"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I just have some restaurants to just go and eat there. Do mean places to watch people? I like to go shopping look for guitars and stuff with my friends. Look at Meyer, great old instruments, talk about pedals and stuff"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

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