Great Quotes

"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

"While I recognize the great value and importance of prescription drugs and strongly support a continued U.S. focus on pharmaceutical research and development, our nation's seniors cannot be asked to subsidize the drug costs of other wealthy industrialized nations any longer"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I love the way Pharell is laying down great drum tracks. He is a great drummer"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love"

William Shatner, Actor

"Joining another big time rock band was the last thing I was looking for, but as the tour went on, I really dug playing to a lot of people, the band sounded great, and just being out there again, got me over my depression and so I decided to hop on board"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I had the great good fortune to interview Peggy Lee. Her memories of working with Walt Disney and his team were warm and upbeat"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting"

Jack Bowman, Actor

"I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night"

Slash, Musician

"The cast clubs were a big part of it, too. I found I wasn't getting that instant feedback I was used to with a forged blade. The sweet spot is a shade bigger, and when I didn't hit the ball dead center, I didn't know it, because it still felt great"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it"

Mathias Rust, Aviator

"I think differently, I think it's about reaching everybody on every different plane and every different level, and if I could remix the song and do a dance remix, that's great. If I could do a classical version, that'll be great too. It's all just about expression"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss"

Black Elk, Leader

"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations"

Horace Walpole, Author

"Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion"

George Grey, Leader

"We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people"

David Axelrod, Public Servant

"I think it's great the opportunity is given to all of us really to come out and play major championships after the real major championships have gone beyond us"

Greg Norman, Athlete

"This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country"

George Grey, Leader

"I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind"

Julia Ward Howe, Activist

"I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"And I found out, the other part of it is that I found out and in my desire to life successfully, that baseball fit very well into my life. It's been a great teacher, trainer, mentor and you'll see what I mean in the next few minutes that I have to speak"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

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