Great Quotes

"Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense"

Helen Gurley Brown, Editor

"I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday"

Sarah Sutton, Actress

"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players"

Blaine Lee, Author

"I have a great deal of difficulty with those who live in a hugely prosperous country telling people in the developing world that they should be deprived of a critical source of energy"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"And I have the support of the writers: I have a great relationship with the creative team, and they have a good hold of my character and my personality, and they come up with some great stuff, and I'm forever trying to change it up, keep it fresh"

Trish Stratus, Entertainer

"Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body"

Matthew Barney, Artist

"You know what? It's a great conversation starter, right? You meet friends that way. Sometimes it's a good thing. And then other times, I guess, the person is just a little too... then you kind of like want to back away. It depends on the person, you know?"

Alison Lohman, Actress

"History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy"

Augustine Birrell, Author

"'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know"

Mike Singletary, Athlete

"The Barks of Trees are best gathered in the Spring, if it be of great Trees, as Oaks or the like, because then they come easiest off, and so you may dry them if you please, but indeed your best way is to gather all Barks only for present use"

Nicholas Culpeper, Scientist

"Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements"

John Sexton, Educator

"Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground"

Sonny Perdue, Politician

"I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe"

Catharine Beecher, Educator

"Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand"

John Burns, Activist

"The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man"

Louis Farrakhan, Activist

"I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters"

Garry Kasparov, Celebrity

"I spent a great deal of time with Che Guevara while I was in Havana. I believe he was far less a mercenary than he was a freedom fighter"

Maureen O'Hara, Actress

"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the greatest railroad leaders in history"

John Moody, Businessman

"I am a firm believer in education and have worked very hard to tell young Latinos that they must go to college and that, if possible, they should pursue an advanced degree. I am convinced that education is the great equalizer"

Jimmy Smits, Actor

"The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true"

Catharine Beecher, Educator

"And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"Great artists suffer for the people"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles"

Faye Dunaway, Actress

"It's always great when you discover someone"

Brian De Palma, Director

"Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason"

Henry Fielding, Novelist

"The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs"

John Lothrop Motley, Historian

"However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition"

Helen Dunmore, Poet

"I am with you heart and soul in the great cause to which you are devoting all your energy and your life"

Frank Leslie, Artist

"I think independent movies are actually very challenging right now, because it was this huge scene and it was great for a few years. Then, it was totally co-opted by the studios. Now, it's become very corporate, the independent scene"

Bob Odenkirk, Actor

"American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

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