Great Quotes

"The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems"

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

"The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"From the material point of view the proposal is unacceptable, for France, without further territory in Europe being taken from her, could be so crushed as to lose her position as a Great Power, and become subordinate to German policy"

Edward Grey, Politician

"Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today"

John Hoeven, Politician

"The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me"

Denise Richards, Actress

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I think it would be great if there were no age limit"

Paula Abdul, Musician

"Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe"

Martin Van Buren, President

"The 5th Amendment is an old friend and a good friend. one of the great landmarks in men's struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"But I think that any young drummer starting out today should get himself a great teacher and learn all there is to know about the instrument that he wants to play"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers"

Black Elk, Leader

"Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that"

Shannon Miller, Athlete

"Certain it is that a great responsibility rests upon the statesmen of all nations, not only to fulfill the promises for reduction in armaments, but to maintain the confidence of the people of the world in the hope of an enduring peace"

Frank B. Kellogg, Politician

"The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are"

John Burroughs, Author

"One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"It was a dream come true performing with her and just being on the same record. So in my eyes, she was the epitome of a great voice and for us to share together was awesome"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"The intelligence of the lower forms of animal life, like a great deal of human intelligence, does not involve a self"

George H. Mead, Philosopher

"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"There's no question that any of us who are doing an honest job in government could do a lot better in private industry. During the years I was practicing law as an individual, my salary was a great deal more than it is now"

Bill Scott, Actor

"Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling"

William Cobbett, Politician

"I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great"

Ted Rall, Cartoonist

"I think I have the skills. I'm a great judge of talent. I just know basketball"

Tim Hardaway, Athlete

"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express"

John Astin, Actor

"Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater"

Emil Zatopek, Athlete

"It was a great mantel to be able to take on really, an amazing legacy. And you know to finally see it, because I just saw the final product yesterday as well, is really amazing to be part of something like this"

Brandon Routh, Actor

"See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little"

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

"Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on"

Ann Patchett, Author

"History has proven that the PLO and its sectors suffered great damage when walking the way of harming Zionist interests in other countries around the world"

Ahmed Yassin, Activist

"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom"

Marie Osmond, Musician

"One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series"

Ted Danson, Actor

"In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory"

Isoroku Yamamoto, Soldier

"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

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