Great Quotes

"I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young"

Michael Vick, Athlete

"Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it"

James Tobin, Economist

"It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both"

Leroy Chiao, Astronaut

"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense"

Jon Secada, Musician

"My webmaster lives in Munich and is a very dear friend of mine. He is doing a great job on the site and it is constantly being updated and always will"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman"

Jessica Hahn, Celebrity

"Regis has a great rapport with the American public"

Wink Martindale, Entertainer

"The good lawyer is the great salesman"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"As great as Ed is, the wisdom out here is that he can't carry a movie. They'll pay him $3 million to be the second banana in Julia Roberts things. But they won't put up $3 million for an Ed Harris movie"

George A. Romero, Director

"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers"

Steven Berkoff, Actor

"David Mamet was great to work with. He was everything that I thought he would be as a director. He's incredibly articulate, an easy collaborator. Extraordinarily knowledgeable about film and writing"

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Actor

"If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him"

Brian Lumley, Writer

"I knew Secrets and Lies was a great film, but I didn't expect it to get the attention it did because none of his other films had and I thought they were just as good"

Brenda Blethyn, Actress

"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel"

Charles Churchill, Poet

"The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people"

A. B. Yehoshua, Novelist

"My dad's music was a great inspiration to me"

Julian Lennon, Musician

"Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads"

John Grisham, Writer

"Increased awareness and education could be a great help toward improving spending and saving habits and increasing participation and contribution levels to retirement plans"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"I don't know if people understand that there are different ways to raise money for great causes"

Rick Dees, Entertainer

"Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand"

Paul Ince, Athlete

"I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do"

Oded Fehr, Actor

"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable"

Cillian Murphy, Actor

"The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular"

Michael York, Actor

"There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought"

Christine McVie, Musician

"As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great"

Marian McPartland, Musician

"The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London"

Karl Philipp Moritz, Author

"I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"I was a great fan of Jim Henson"

Terri Windling, Artist

"I feel angry that I can't be hypnotized. I'm not putting it down, and I'm not saying that it doesn't exist. I have talked to a great many people who are very good at it, but so far nobody has ever been able to hypnotize me"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children"

Roman Polanski, Director

"My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day"

Rick Derringer, Musician

"But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors"

Robert Delaunay, Artist

"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there"

Robert Cormier, Author

"The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!"

Peter Hook, Musician

"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty"

Pablo Neruda, Writer

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it"

George Edward Moore, Philosopher

"It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

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