Great Quotes

"I think it's the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations"

"The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time"

John McCain, Politician

"When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer"

Harold Coffin

"A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind"

Gustav Stresemann, Politician

"I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England"

George Mikes, Writer

"There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"I always sang when I was little and my father, who was a great influence on me, also had a wonderful voice. He and my mother really encouraged me to sing and play the piano. They were always very supportive"

Judy Collins, Musician

"Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"There I was limited to what happened the same way I am with Riel. It doesn't feel like a great burden to have your story, to some degree, set. I am enjoying figuring out what I think is the most dramatic way of telling this set of historical facts"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

"All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking"

Charles Henry Parkhurst, Clergyman

"It's a great dynamic. The dynamic between men and women in the workplace is really interesting"

Elizabeth Moss, Actress

"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin"

Henry Cabot Lodge, Politician

"Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal"

Frank Lampard, Athlete

"Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct"

Dean Koontz, Author

"Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love"

Dean Koontz, Author

"No other investment yields as great a return as the investment in education. An educated workforce is the foundation of every community and the future of every economy"

Brad Henry, Politician

"Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

"It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece"

Anthony Anderson, Actor

"Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer"

Angela Davis, Activist

"People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people"

Berenice Bejo, Actress

"Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes"

Rosalia de Castro

"It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video"

Tom Wilkinson, Actor

"Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam"

Grace Abbott, Activist

"Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality"

Bryan White, Musician

"I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns"

Ernest Shackleton, Explorer

"Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

"A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

"It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority"

George Lopez, Comedian

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

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