Great Quotes

I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.

Edward Tufte
- Up
- Thinking
- Writing
I had a great editor, Rebecca Corbett, from the time I was a city reporter right through to the years I worked on the 'Sun's' enterprise reporting team.

David Simon
- Time
- Team
- City

I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.

Armand Hammer
- Time
- Believe
- Art
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.

Clark Gable
- Life
- Great
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

Chris Pine
- Up
- Time
- High
We have telemedicine where, if you come into our office, you can go downstairs, and there's a machine there and a nurse there, and you talk to a doctor who works from a clinic down the street. It's just going to make a great health care system in the long run. We just have a lot of pains go through.

Bruce Broussard
- Long
- Health
- Nurse
Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

Phil Lesh Grateful Dead
- Music
- Help
- Consistency
We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher.

Barack Obama
- People
- Life
- Work