Great Quotes

"But I love honesty, and, therefore; do I make great account of facts"

"There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out"

Robert Sheckley, Author

"I think American Idol is a great career launcher. A blessing for all of us"

LaToya London, Musician

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style"

Ken Burns, Director

"The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude"

Johnny Thunders, Musician

"I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me"

Ice Cube, Musician

"There are a lot of great actresses out there. You learn to appreciate each one for what they offer"

Victoria Pratt, Actress

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that"

Adam Sandler, Actor

"But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story"

Tom Selleck, Actor

"I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be"

Tom Baker, Actor

"One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place"

Margaret Sanger, Activist

"We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict"

Daniel Barenboim, Musician

"The great break of my literary career was going to law school"

Scott Turow, Novelist

"They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle"

Sarah Silverman, Comedian

"I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process"

Kristanna Loken, Actress

"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine"

James Jeans, Physicist

"Asean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges"

Hassanal Bolkiah, Statesman

"It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something"

Brandon Boyd, Musician

"Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"Incendiary capitalism is carrying its out evil works more dangerously than ever, and is doing so in the increasingly dangerous neighborhood of the powder kegs that are the great European military powers"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way"

Stephen Rea, Actor

"If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas"

Peter Sotos, Writer

"If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"I want kids to enjoy skating and I think it's a great workout"

Oksana Baiul, Athlete

"I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"It has worked great good in other communities in the state where it has been honestly and faithfully tried, and I feel confident it will do the same in Pitt, if we faithfully administer the law, and that it will bring gladness and joy into the homes of the people"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I have too great a soul to die like a criminal"

John Wilkes Booth, Criminal

"See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool"

James Daly, Actor

"It takes a little work to be a vegan, but now it's really possible to have tasty stuff and it's better for you. I say the best test is go as far as you can and see how you feel. Personally, I feel great"

Grace Slick, Musician

"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, and I used to be a ticket holder with my family and family friends. We would go every weekend and I thought it was great, but I just thought of it as recreation, as family fun"

Brandi Chastain, Athlete

"We got stuffed 4-1, but it was just great to play against, it was like an education. You think you are half good and then you go and play against a side like that!"

Alan Hansen, Athlete

"I come from a family of great readers and storytellers"

Katherine Dunn, Novelist

"It is not short of amazing, the power of a great idea to weld men together. There was in it a peculiar, intense, vital spirit if you will, that I have never felt before in any strike"

Ray Stannard Baker, Journalist

"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

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