Great Quotes

"Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens"

"I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification"

Ron Chernow, Author

"Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills"

John Milius, Director

"The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"The art of Peace I practice has room for each of the world's eight million gods, and I cooperate with them all. The God of Peace is very great and enjoins all that is divine and enlightened in every land"

Morihei Ueshiba, Athlete

"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in Rio Bravo"

Stephen Fry, Comedian

"I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people"

Huey Newton, Activist

"There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's, privacy"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

"I think music sharing of any kind is great"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes"

Raymond Chandler, Writer

"As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin"

Ron Chernow, Author

"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything"

Don Bluth, Artist

"California is a great place to live if you're an orange"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"You remember that my great vision came to me when I was only nine years old, and you have seen that I was not much good for anything until after I had performed the horse dance near the mouth of the Tongue River during my eighteenth summer"

Black Elk, Leader

"A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage"

Hesiod, Poet

"I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it's a great brush to use for some stories. And there are other brushes that I think are exclusive to a different kind of story"

Don Bluth, Artist

"At the root of many a woman's failure to become a great cook lies her failure to develop a workmanlike regard for knives"

Robert Farrar Capon

"A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

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