Great Quotes

• What I have learned from working on those great shows is what is the DNA that makes them so deeply involving and interesting for an audience over a long period of time. So much has to do with character, complexity, and sophistication.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

  

  Philip Johnson
  • Great
  • Pretty
  • Style

• Before YouTube, I used to show videos at film festivals, and that was good and constructive. Watching things with an audience is a great way to gauge - it's pretty clear what's working in comedy when there's a joke and people laugh or don't laugh.

  

  Jason Woliner
  • People
  • Good
  • Pretty

• My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

  

  David Copperfield
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Small

• The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• A lot of people have dementia, which is great, because then they don't recognize me.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • People
  • Great
  • Dementia

• I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

  

  Anne-Marie
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.

  

  Kevin Love
  • Great

• I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.

  

  Peter Cook
  • Great
  • Done
  • Poverty

• So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• If great managers are catalysts, speeding up the reaction between the individual's talents and the company's goals, then great leaders are alchemists. Somehow they are able to transform our fear of the unknown into confidence in the future.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Up
  • Future
  • Fear

• I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

  

  Alexander Koch
  • Good
  • Sad
  • Romantic

• Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Great

• 'I learned a great deal,' said Beran. 'And then I lost all heart for further learning.'Palafox’s eyes glinted. 'Education is not achieved through the heart-it is a systematization of the mental processes.''But I am something other than a mental process,' said Beran. 'I am a man. I must reckon with the whole of myself.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Lost

• I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

  

  Ray Davies The Kinks
  • Great

• For 'Spartacus,' we've committed 100 percent of our production time to creating great scenes. So all the training I do is on my own time. And that's pretty limited.

  

  Andy Whitfield
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Training

• I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.

  

  Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • World
  • She
  • House

• Kids have been a great clarifier - incredibly rewarding.

  

  Joanne Whalley
  • Great
  • Kids

• I'm really thankful and complimented when people come to me and say, thank you for the great times for all these years. But I don't think about it as being a leader.

  

  Bill Kreutzmann Grateful Dead
  • People
  • Great
  • Thankful

• It's great to have a lot of support; people recognizing what you're doing out there and identifying with you in whatever way they see fit is a great fit, I think, and for me it's neat, for people to want to come to the golf course and watch me play golf.

  

  Jason Dufner
  • People
  • Support
  • Golf

• There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great significance are possible.

  

  Charles H. Townes
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Science

• My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven't determined yet. I think my mother's a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

  

  James Ellroy
  • World
  • Writing
  • Character

• I love scary movies and respect the filmmakers of scary movies, and it's just as hard to make a great scary movie as it is to make a great comedy or drama or anything else.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Movie
  • Respect
  • Comedy

• I've had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to 'E.T.' help with an environmental message - I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Great
  • Help
  • Service

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