Great Quotes

"But Walt and him shared the same kind of optimism. Walt believed in himself, and he was optimistic about what he wanted to do. He just knew it will be okay, and Dali was the same way. They had a great deal in common that way"

John Hench, Artist

"I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis"

James Monroe, President

"The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"Dave was great in Van Halen. No question about it. He was one of the best at being Mr. Rock Star. But it's sickening to see a guy still trying to be that with a wig on 20 years later"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife"

Martin Short, Actor

"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously"

Logan P. Smith, Writer

"Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment"

Robert Wagner, Actor

"Above all, we must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"It's so weird that I went to rehab. I always said that I would die before I went to rehab. But I thought, 'I'm going to stay here tonight.' And I stayed there for a month. It was great"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights"

Lusia Strus, Actress

"Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible"

T-Bone Burnett

"They got a great performance from me. I was happy"

Jimmy Fallon, Comedian

"A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

"I love grocery shopping when I'm home. That's what makes me feel totally normal. I love both the idea of home as in being with my family and friends, and also the idea of exploration. I think those two are probably my great interests"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal"

William Allen White, Editor

"Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"White Zombie was a bunch of kids with the worst equipment playing in a basement. But that is what is so great about it. There is no reason to think that you can't do it"

Rob Zombie, Musician

"There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there"

Michael Richards, Actor

"If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment"

Herb Brooks, Coach

"It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"I'm like Sergeant Schultz, I know nothing. We are trying to share ideas around the world. We don't just come up with a great idea in Brazil and ignore it in the rest of the world"

Rick Wagoner, Businessman

"Today we thank God for all the blessings He has bestowed upon this great Country and ask Him to continue to heal our land and meet our needs - and we do so through the power of prayer"

Nick Rahall, Politician

"It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people"

Patricia Clarkson, Actress

"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"To be able to get up and be in my studio and work all day is a great joy"

Martin Mull, Actor

"I don't want to feel like a failure to my daughter. She's the best thing I've ever done. Buffy - pretty great and all, but Charlotte's way better"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"If I could just get a piece of lemon, it'd be great"

Rip Torn, Actor

"I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!"

Joanna Trollope, Novelist

"Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody"

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Athlete

"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Al Jazeera aired a new tape of Osama bin Laden. It was the usual stuff, he called Bush evil, the Great Satan, called him a war monger. Basically, the same thing you heard at last night's Democratic debate"

Jay Leno, Comedian

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