Great Quotes

"We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"You still remember the bad rounds here, but they don't stay with you as long. The Champions Tour is great, it's competitive and it's a wonderful show, but it's not the real big league. The real big league is the PGA Tour, and we all know that"

Tom Kite, Athlete

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo"

Alan Rickman, Actor

"My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for me. She was a working mother with a good career"

Andrea Jung, Businessman

"To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner"

Holly Near, Musician

"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling"

Holly Near, Musician

"There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great"

Jonathan Shapiro, Cartoonist

"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"That's one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn't catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts"

Harold Ramis, Actor

"I bought a piano once because I had the dream of playing As Time Goes By as some girl's leaning on it drinking a martini. Great image. But none of it worked out. I can't even play Chopsticks. But I've got a nice piano at my house!"

George Clooney, Actor

"I am only a sparrow amongst a great flock of sparrows"

Evita Peron, Statesman

"You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium"

Nick Johnson, Athlete

"In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals"

James C. Maxwell, Mathematician

"I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect"

Joan Didion, Author

"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area"

James Larkin, Activist

"The wealth of south Florida, but even more important, the meaning and significance of south Florida lies in the black muck of the Everglades and the inevitable development of this country to be the great tropic agricultural center of the world"

Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Journalist

"It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"I had no expectations about fatherhood, really, but it's definitely a journey I'm glad to be taking. Number one, it's a great learning experience. When my mother told me it's a 24/7 job, she wasn't kidding"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'"

Charles Simmons, Politician

"Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"It feels great to have a #1 album"

Billy Joel, Musician

"And when I talk about love, I'm talking about something that's great, though, brother. I'm talking about something that will sustain you"

Cornel West, Educator

"We really need to stop the imperialist tendencies of countries like the United States and Great Britain"

Cindy Sheehan, Activist

"I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens"

James E. Rogers, Educator

"Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error"

Ferdinand Mount, Writer

"In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order"

Edwin Hubbel Chapin, Clergyman

"So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it"

Eli Wallach, Actor

"A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the people by education to rightly exercise the great powers with which they are invested"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"Many years before I had left a beautiful country and a rich nation and I returned to that country six years later to find it fundamentally changed and in a state of upheaval, and in great spiritual and material need"

Fritz Sauckel, Soldier

"The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

"Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still"

Frederick William Faber, Theologian

"I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic"

Brooke Burke, Model

"He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

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