Great Quotes

"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

"I have a great deal of respect and admiration for people who put themselves on the line"

Major Owens, Politician

"As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman"

Lynn Davies, Athlete

"Great comforts do, indeed, bear witness to the truth of thy grace, but not to the degree of it; the weak child is oftener in the lap than the strong one"

William Gurnall, Author

"The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college"

Tony Hillerman, Author

"There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason"

John Astin, Actor

"There's always a dinner to go to. There're always loads of people around. I was having fun working with my friends. For a while it all just kind of rolled together in a great way"

Kate Moss, Model

"A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue"

James Monroe, President

"The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising the rest of the world to our standard and price, than by lowering the prices here to the standard of the Continent"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy"

Dennis Hastert, Politician

"I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot"

Mark Goddard, Actor

"It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written"

Saul Williams, Musician

"To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation"

Charles Edward Montague, Journalist

"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English"

Robert Morgan, Soldier

"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare"

John Moody, Businessman

"In Great Britain the price of food is at a higher level than in any other country, and consequently, the British artisan labours at a disadvantage in proportion to the higher rate of his food"

Joseph Hume, Scientist

"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency"

Aesop, Author

"For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way"

John Burns, Activist

"I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake"

Luis Miguel, Musician

"You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"I have always watched the Race of Champions on TV every year and dreamed about participating one day. It's fantastic to be invited; I'm so happy. To represent Team Germany together with Michael Schumacher is a great honor"

Sebastian Vettel, Celebrity

"The crew loves working on the show, even though we have to work really hard. There's nobody in the show that's difficult. We really have a great group"

Victor Garber, Actor

"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective"

John Lithgow, Actor

"No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes"

William E. Gladstone, Leader

"All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace"

Rick Wagoner, Businessman

"I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series"

Victor Garber, Actor

"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"There has been much talk referencing what I consider conceptual reports like the Landscape of Choice and documents created as a result of the Great Valley Center"

Alan Autry, Actor

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office"

Aesop, Author

"We have made great strides, but somehow we've got to create a climate so that everybody can do well, not just some"

Alveda King, Clergyman

"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"When we finally got to play that and we had a great show there, well I can tell it was pretty awesome. Y'know, we probably did bigger festivals since then; we probably headlined bigger festivals since then, but I will always remember that"

Kerry King, Musician

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