Great Quotes

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.

Salma is just one of the great goddesses ever put on this Earth.

St. Elsewhere was certainly a great show.

I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

You find with the really great actors, the ones you really admire and look up to, very often they're very giving, generous, warm people.

And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

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

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.

But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

Walking is great to be used as an exercise program.

Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.

My feeling was, you plant some seeds. If they grow, great; if they don't, you don't take it personally. Not my problem; I just kept planting. Just like a farmer.

For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

I get to play a great character while working with great actors and great directors on a great show.

And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you've never seen before, and they're at a great advantage.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of.

Kevin, as the whole cast is, just wonderful people and great people, and people who are attracted to this kind of material and accepting the idea of going to Newfoundland and knowing the kind of lack of amenities.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried.