Great Quotes

"It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"I went to the public schools myself. And they were great for me"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"I enjoy working with Melissa a great deal. We're always looking for projects to do together. I was happy to have her do the show, because she doesn't normally do episodic unless she's starring, and I was very happy with the results"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity"

David Ricardo, Economist

"And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"Mantovani was a great influence on me"

Brian May, Musician

"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal"

Brian May, Musician

"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays"

Carol Alt, Model

"But I don't just see the movie when I see the movie, I see all the great people who worked on it and all their hard work, because they could not have worked any harder"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun"

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted"

Fiona Shaw, Actress

"Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level"

Brad Bird, Cartoonist

"Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured"

Brian May, Musician

"We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression"

Arthur Laffer, Economist

"When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it"

Allen Tate, Poet

"Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"Loyal and efficient work in a great cause, even though it may not be immediately recognized, ultimately bears fruit"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names"

Charles Barkley, Athlete

"It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere"

Keith Richards, Musician

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war"

John Adams, President

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society"

John Adams, President

"The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules"

Kim Weston, Photographer

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