Great Quotes

"You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience"

Shelley Winters, Actress

"They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience"

Richard Dean Anderson, Actor

"I was a Georgia state legislator for a great many years"

Julian Bond, Activist

"I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't think I've written any great songs"

Paul Simon, Musician

"We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children"

Patricia Sun, Author

"I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great"

Larry Wall, Author

"Every great crisis of human history is a pass of Thermopylae, and there is always a Leonidas and his three hundred to die in it, if they can not conquer"

George William Curtis, Author

"Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life"

Manuel Puig, Author

"But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement"

Lindy Boggs, Politician

"A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision"

Steven Brust, Author

"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there"

Paul Simon, Musician

"I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"I have a great relationship with my parents. I have not been on lithium"

Zach Braff, Actor

"All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"In the animal world, on the other hand, the process of evolution is characterised by the progressive discrimination of the animal and vegetative functions, and a consequent differentiation of these two great provinces into their separate departments"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life"

Jose Marti, Activist

"I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"I'm totally down with insurrection in the street. I've had a great time with that over the years. Insurrection in the voting booth is the other part of the equation"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Any great organization can go through sectarian phases"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician