Great Quotes

"I have had five phenomenal children, a great husband and, even though we are separated, we are good friends"

"As the audiences got larger, the participation got larger. And I found myself in Dallas, and 20,000 people were singing 'Madonna Whore' back at me. I thought... this is really a great thing. They wanted to hear it really badly, and here they are"

Cyndi Lauper, Musician

"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story"

John McGahern, Writer

"Our border patrol does a great job under these very dangerous conditions. They use very sophisticated equipment, including gamma rays, to detect drugs and illegal immigrants as they enter the U.S"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Great teachers transcend ideology"

Suzanne Fields

"Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line"

Pat Williams, Athlete

"We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"My favorite thing to do is still to go back to Peoria, go to my cabin and hunt with the boys. This is a great lifestyle, don't get me wrong. But fun for me is going back with my buddies I grew up with"

Jim Thome, Athlete

"I've always had great faith in people"

Wayne Newton, Musician

"This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously"

Steven Gerrard, Athlete

"It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"That great dust-heap called 'history'"

Augustine Birrell, Author

"At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour"

Nicole Appleton, Musician

"Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"I loved Herman's Head. And it was a great experience"

Lita Ford, Musician

"The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience"

Nicholas Lea, Actor

"It's not even about black and white anymore, because so many people are from mixed backgrounds and mixed ethnicities, and it's just a great time to be able to pull all that together"

George Lopez, Comedian

"I learned a great deal doing Brooklyn Bridge. I was able to take a giant step into the terrible reality that was then. We saw the cattle cars that took folks away. Just knowing it was real, it would be impossible not to feel"

Marion Ross, Actor

"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation"

Umberto Eco, Novelist

"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"The young people look great on television. They're youthful and have a lot of zip and energy, but when you see them live, they can only do about 20 minutes because they haven't got the training to hold an audience for an hour and a half or so"

Tony Bennett, Musician

"I have great faith in the jury system"

Judge Mills Lane, Celebrity

"And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win"

Sachin Tendulkar, Athlete

"I can't wait to work for Rick Kaplan. He's a great producer. I would host an infomercial if he would produce it"

Tucker Carlson, Journalist

"College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation"

Louise Brooks, Actress

"The Connection Machines owned by the United States government laboratories were made available to me because they were considered impossible to program and there was no great demand for them at that time"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"It's a great feeling to think that I can be a friend to so many people through my movies"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Then I contacted Ken, then he called me back, then we had a great meeting. Then he called and asked if I would come back to the show. Which was awesome"

Austin Peck, Actor

"Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world"

John Ashcroft, Public Servant

"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent"

Obie Trice, Musician

"There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people"

Jay Inslee, Politician

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