Great Quotes

"Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind"

Hermann von Helmholtz, Physicist

"I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country"

Marian Anderson, Musician

"As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"All in all, the League of Nations is not inevitably bound, as some maintain from time to time, to degenerate into an impotent appendage of first one, then another of the competing great powers"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"I will always remember this summer day in Paris, when I was to perform a great acrobatic move. I can still see myself stepping on the ring of a packed circus along real performers"

Tony Curtis, Actor

"The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read"

Heywood Broun, Journalist

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man"

Loren Eiseley, Scientist

"I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that"

Diane Wakoski, Poet

"Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left"

Joshua Chamberlain, Soldier

"Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings"

Joseph Franklin Rutherford, Clergyman

"But I always loved songs with great lyrics"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. They're to promote each other's movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and they'll go to see them. It's still the same"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music"

Will Champion, Musician

"This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people"

Walter Ulbricht, Politician

"Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization"

Shirley Hazzard, Novelist

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week"

Sandra Bullock, Actress

"My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door"

Robert Creeley, Poet

"All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself"

Mike Wilson

"I'm very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great"

Ike Turner, Musician

"Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute"

Rebecca H. Davis

"Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North"

Rebecca H. Davis

"We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others"

Matthew Simpson, Clergyman

"Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"Just the other day I pulled out this old cassette of Ragged Glory and I popped it into my cassette player and I was digging it. They were just a great rock and roll band, one that presents the song ahead of everything else - there's no grand idea or concept behind it"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"We feel very honored to have been offered the responsibility to host this great event, Berlin is a wonderful city that is developing at a tremendous rate, and this decision means that we can now prepare to welcome the world's best athletes to a fascinating place"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong"

Michael Chabon, Author

"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go I'm going to regret it"

Scott Caan, Actor

"One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers"

Robin Hayes, Politician

"At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education"

Paul Hoffman, Celebrity

"But among them now were a large number of Communists in positions of great power within the new union movement, some of them actually moving close to the center of power. This was the crack in the wall through which they entered. Their power was to grow and prosper"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life"

Ted Demme, Director

"The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

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