Great Quotes
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Men who content themselves with the semblance of truth, and a display of words, talk much of our obligations to Great Britain for protection. Had she a single eye to our advantage? A nation of shopkeepers are very seldom so disinterested.
Samuel Adams
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I think great directors really respect their actors and vice versa. That mutual respect makes the job fun instead of anything but.
Lake Bell
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we no longer feel the need to attend every meeting together or read all the same memos. Instead, we can better divide the job of leading this great company and simplify the decision-making process.
John Reed
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
Flume
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See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.
James Daly
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One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.
Martin Short
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I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.
John Cusack
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I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.
Taissa Farmiga
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'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.
Tate Donovan
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Maybe there are logical reasons for a gay person not to have a great relationship with their parents - not because there's a parent who made him gay, but just because it may be difficult to understand everything.
B. D. Wong
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I did not come from an academic background. My father was a smart man, but he had a fifth-grade education. He and all his friends were plumbers. They were all born around 1905 in great poverty in New York City and had to go to work when they were 12 or 13 years old.
Leonard Susskind
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'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
Jackie Earle Haley
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The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
Ben Harper
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When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.
Vera Wang
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I don't come from any great culinary tradition - I'm from London!
Arthur Potts Dawson
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I wish I knew what was next. I got this movie without planning to. I'm really excited to be continuing in film because it's a great job but I have my portfolio and resume for any other opportunity.
Colleen Haskell
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The assertion that art may be good art and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...it is the same as saying some kind of food is good but most people can't eat it.
Leo Tolstoy
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If there's one thing I've said more than anything else, it's that it's great that this is (one of) the first teams to be inducted. Because that group was the epitome of team.
Don Brewer
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I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
Jane Austen
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The great thing about being 30 is that there are a great deal more available women. The young ones look younger and the old ones don't look nearly as old.
Glenn Frey The Eagles
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It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.
Madeleine de Souvre
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While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.
David Antin
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The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.
Scotty McCreery
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. Seuss