Great Quotes

• The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Business
  • Poetry
  • Difference

• The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Life
  • World
  • Bad

• We remain committed to inspiring and compelling social change to the world's most pressing problems through the power of great stories and engaging our audiences to take meaningful action.

  

  Jeffrey Skoll
  • World
  • Power
  • Action

• I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Literature

• So far, and today, everything felt really great. Now I am good to get on the plane and fly to Australia.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Good
  • Today
  • Fly

• The human body has been called the microcosm of the universe, a little world of wonders and a monument of divine wisdom and power, sufficient to convince the most incredulous mind of the existence of the Great Designer.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.

  

  Daniella Alonso
  • Time
  • Great
  • Comedy

• Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and 'The Edge Of Love' was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

  

  Matthew Rhys
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• Back in the '70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was 'The Bad News Bears', and that was a kids' movie, but I don't think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

  

  Jack Black
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Movie

• So long as the Oregon question is left open, Mexico will calculate the chances of a rupture between us and Great Britain, in the event of which she would be prepared to make common cause against us. But when an end is put to any such hope, she will speedily settle her difference with us.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Question

• At an event in Germany, I realised the organisers had 'The Great Escape' playing as background music to my test, and I just thought, 'It's really cool. I want that.' It is fantastic to ride to.

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Great
  • Music
  • Cool

• Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body.

  

  Mark Pryor
  • People
  • Great

• If you have really pretty skin, then you can pretty much stick on mascara and a lip cream and look great.

  

  Paulina Porizkova
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Great
  • Wise

• Comedy and politics have a lot in common. Both are great ways to pick up chicks - just look at Governor Spitzer. Or Ellen Degeneres. Both require spending time on the road meeting strangers who often have the desire to throw things at you. Both are difficult, if not impossible, to do all alone. And both rely heavily on personality.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Up
  • Time
  • Desire

• Comedy is a shared experience, and I think it's great to open that to a wide demographic.

  

  Dave Coulier
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Comedy

• My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.

  

  Bob Beauprez
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Great
  • Think
  • Humble

• We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • Evil
  • Scripture

• Something like 'Dr. Thirteen,' which features no big characters, was probably the most fun thing I've worked on because the story was so great, and it was written so well.

  

  Cliff Chiang
  • Great
  • Fun

• There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Up
  • Bad
  • True

• It makes me feel great, knowing my songs are being heard and of service to people.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • People
  • Song
  • Service

• In our firm's earliest days, our understanding of the power of great software engineering and quantitative analytics helped Citadel stand out.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Power
  • Understanding
  • Engineering

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