Great Quotes

"In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order"

Jim Costa, Politician

"One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them"

Kingsley Amis, Novelist

"Clem had made it known that Pollock was a great painter"

Kenneth Noland, Artist

"I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances"

Nancy Greene, Athlete

"There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play"

John Bonham, Musician

"Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things"

Jim Costa, Politician

"It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I've also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years"

Christina Ricci, Actress

"Being known for musicals is a great thing"

Zac Efron, Actor

"Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world"

Charles Francis Richter, Scientist

"Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you"

Zac Efron, Actor

"It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents"

Nick Lampson, Politician

"The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago"

John Bright, Politician

"Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did"

Latrell Sprewell, Athlete

"A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal"

L. Ron Hubbard, Author

"But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"I am hoping for peaceful transition into a new age. Obama has already played a great role in initiating us into that vision. If he were to be harmed in any way, it would spawn the birth of a million Obamas"

Saul Williams, Musician

"And the spirit of Superman is great to have around"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor"

Allen Klein, Businessman

"I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing"

Jay Roach, Director

"I'd like to think I could have and should have won more, but that's not the point. And I was at the point where I was playing great tennis in the mid 80s - the type of tennis people hadn't seen before - and I was very proud of that"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"We gained a great deal of prestige, but not much money. We liked to work so much we couldn't hide it and the club owners paid us accordingly"

Judy Holliday, Actress

"I am just glad that I can take the music to the people who want to hear it. I love my audiences. I am deeply indebted to them for giving me the chance to sing my concerts, make records, and do what I love. Whatever people call it, it is great to have a voice!"

Judy Collins, Musician

"Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"I think the players, I put in the book for example that we should go back to wood rackets, probably they laughed at me, I'm a dinosaur, but I think that you see these great players, have even more variety and you see more strategy, there'd be more subtlety"

John McEnroe, Athlete

"Look at Iraq; look at Afghanistan, where at great personal physical risk people have gone to the polls and have rejected the appeal from Bin Laden and his allies to stay at home"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips"

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Novelist

"Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them"

James A. Michener, Novelist

"A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are"

George Meredith, Novelist

"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv"

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer

"No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time"

Emma Goldman, Activist

"It's great to be able to have your feet in both worlds. I wouldn't want to be just stuck in one or the other"

David Morse

"I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen"

Augusten Burroughs, Writer

"It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host"

Franz Beckenbauer, Athlete

"If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast"

Glenn Frey, Musician

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