Great Quotes

"The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention"

"I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad"

William Bernbach, Businessman

"No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing"

Gary Wright, Musician

"I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"Well, we played with Soul Coughing once for like two days, that was pretty cool. I mean they were all good, you can pull a great experience from everything"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

"The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth"

Louis Agassiz, Scientist

"I've got a great place, it's a country house"

Lita Ford, Musician

"Besides, I always thought that one of the great attractions of practising law was what I like to call the collegiality of the profession and I think that duty of collegiality applies even when we are retired"

Len G. Murray, Lawyer

"I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed"

John Romero, Inventor

"They are the greatest curse of all great men, daughters"

Jason Zebehazy, Businessman

"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time"

Russell Hoban, Novelist

"Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in"

David Zucker, Director

"When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise"

Lauren Bacall, Actress

"If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great"

Scott Wolf, Actor

"The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions"

James Freeman Clarke, Clergyman

"If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace"

Bryan White, Musician

"I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been"

Edwin Starr, Musician

"I don't smoke, don't drink much, and go to the gym five times a week. I live a healthy lifestyle and feel great. I can run a marathon, you know"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch"

Cyndi Lauper, Musician

"One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests"

Max Beerbohm, Actor

"I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well"

Mackenzie Crook, Actor

"I want to know what it's like to play in a Super Bowl and win one. My career will be great without it. But, personally, selfishly, I want to know what it feels like"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool"

Thomas V. Smith

"Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe"

Andrew Marvell, Writer

"I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat"

Sam Snead, Athlete

"I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test"

Oriana Fallaci, Journalist

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