Great Quotes

• If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

  

  Jason Statham
  • Good
  • Home
  • Imagination

• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops.

  

  John Muir
  • World
  • Men
  • Nature

• Shoes are a big part of your look. I think that if your outfit isn't really something special, then fun footwear is a great way to jazz it up and make your ensemble more interesting.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • Good
  • Great

• This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Life
  • Country
  • America

• I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

  

  John Byrne
  • People
  • Great
  • Daily

• I think it all started with the tuna sandwich, and then, on the road, gearing up for New York, Nick [Kroll] and John [Mulaney] had the idea of having a tuna puppet, which became Tony Tuna, and their friend Cammi Upton designed that and did a great job.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Up
  • Job
  • Friend

• A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

  

  Mark Strand
  • People
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• L.A. is always great. There's something special about L.A. And New York, for me, because it's home. There's nothing quite like walking onstage at Madison Square Garden.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Home
  • Walking
  • Garden

• It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Great
  • Simple

• It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Giving
  • Responsibility

• Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Work
  • Different
  • Experience

• When Ozzie Virgil became the first Dominican player in the majors, his nationality was barely noticed. What the press and fans talked about was his skin color. He was the first black player on the Detroit Tigers, and a great deal of attention was paid to him as someone who crossed the color line.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Black
  • Attention
  • Player

• With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.

  

  Martin Van Buren
  • Great
  • Respect

• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• If you get a chance to play with great players, that's half the battle.

  

  Charles Barkley
  • Great

• I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Health
  • Sports
  • Wise

• Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by your contemporaries or people from the past is really great.

  

  Lawrence Bender
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've said it before, and I'll say it again: It may be cloudy in my right eye, but the sun is shining very brightly in my left eye. And just think how the sun has shined, right up to the doors of this great hall, the shrine for the greatest game in the world and the greatest players in the world ? baseball.

  

  Kirby Puckett
  • Up
  • World
  • May

• As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot find the corporate courage to stand for the millions of courageous past great Americans whose sacrifice gave meaning to our flag and national anthem and to the millions upon millions who still dream to come to its free shores.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • American
  • Dream
  • Free

• For any actor, it's a great privilege to play a character that is very distant from yourself.

  

  James Norton
  • Great
  • Character

• The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • People
  • World
  • American

• You become a great writer by writing.

  

  Peter Thiel
  • Great
  • Writing

• This great imperialistic world called the United States has made us believe that an Oscar is the most important thing in the world for an actor. But if you think about it for five minutes you realise it can't be.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

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