Great Quotes

"I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs"

"I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"Joe Walsh is a great guy and and an unbelievable talent, I'd like to work with him again someday"

Lita Ford, Musician

"We have always had great and loyal fans in Oakland"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"They've all been through bad things. So bad things happen to people. They happen to all the great men of God"

Jim Bakker, Celebrity

"Every day I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately I have a great group of friends who help me do this"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy"

Susan Powter, Celebrity

"John Danforth, I thought, was a great senator and did a great job with the United Nations. I think he's a good man. I would respectfully disagree with that"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did"

Julie Walters, Actress

"Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual"

John Sexton, Educator

"There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not"

Paul von Hindenburg, President

"In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs"

William Bligh, Soldier

"It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it"

Vin Scully, Celebrity

"The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads"

Beyonce Knowles, Musician

"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"I can do small things in a great way"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"I'm not really a science-fiction fan, I quite like the idea of getting away from the science-fiction side of it, for two episodes. It was lovely, it was a super story and great fun"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"It's great that people are interested in Mars"

Jack Schmitt, Astronaut

"I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit"

Laura Dern, Actress

"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"We got great ratings and fan interest, and that's what management wanted"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"The original Dean Martin Comedy Hour handed me some hysterical sketches. I've got highlights on tons of these variety shows, given to me by their great writers. I'd love to be doing all that again"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great"

Major Owens, Politician

"I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"I really liked working with Sean Paul; he is a very attractive guy, very hot. He was fun; the chemistry was really great, it was great to be in the moment"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

"And then a great thing in my life was going to India"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Even in China. Children there, next to the Great Wall, who had never seen Mickey Mouse responded. So the studio did have that skill to communicate with images"

John Hench, Artist

"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

"There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"In every aspect of life, including the economic dimension, we are always challenged to do the right thing. In many cases in the market system, which allows a great deal of latitude for human choice, people can get carried away to excess"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

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