Great Quotes

• What do I think of L.A.? It's boring, with some amazing nuggets. Like there are some parts of it that are great, but by and large I think it's quite boring.

  

  Jemaine Clement
  • Great
  • Amazing

• Our efforts must be bent in the direction of convincing the great mass of working people of this country of the necessity of our winning and retaining our place in business and commerce. That place can be won only through the workers' own efforts and through their own efficiency.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • People
  • Country
  • Business

• A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.

  

  David Kay
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Team

• Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Music
  • Pretty

• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man - that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense - has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Book
  • Reading

• My early experiences in animation taught me that following someone else is not a great idea.

  

  Chris Meledandri
  • Great

• I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to really think things through.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • World
  • Great
  • Parents

• I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.

  

  Keri Russell
  • Great
  • High
  • Fly

• You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

  

  Kenneth Langone
  • People
  • Bad
  • Success

• Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Great
  • Teacher

• When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to have a good year. It would always 'lead' to something, which never leads to anything except death, where everything leads to. And then as I got older, and then I had my kids and everything, I began to appreciate a great Wednesday.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Kids

• I have set up several businesses as social businesses, and I am a great believer that the power of business should be used for good.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Up
  • Good
  • Business

• I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

  

  Christie Hefner
  • City
  • Chicago
  • Entrepreneur

• I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Great
  • Character

• What I wish is that people would look beyond the tribbles and see I've written some other books that I really would like people to notice. There's 'The Man Who Folded Himself,' there's 'The Martian Child,' which is about my son and the adoption. There's 'The War Against The Chtorr,' which is my magnum opus, my great epic story.

  

  David Gerrold
  • People
  • War
  • Wish

• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • True
  • Help
  • Pain

• When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Work
  • Bad

• Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.

  

  Ciara
  • Great
  • Workout

• I started looking all over for vineyard sites. I studied the conditions that make the best pinots. In the New World, you have to find the great pieces of land. Cool climate counts, but distinctive soil matters more than anything.

  

  Kevin Harvey
  • World
  • Great
  • Cool

• The Internet is a great place to find unconventional comedy that you can't find anywhere else.

  

  Andy Dick
  • Great
  • Comedy

• I always got great respect as a bass player.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Respect
  • Player
  • Bass

• All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

  

  David Whyte
  • Relationship
  • Alone
  • Religious

• Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • World
  • God
  • Men

• Listen, I like great actors. You can be a movie star without being a great actor - this has been proved several times - and I like my casts to have great actors. Acting is more important to me than being a star.

  

  Jose Padilha
  • Important
  • Movie
  • Star

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