Great Quotes
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Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.
David Robinson The Cars
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And of course, identifying all human genes and proteins will have great medical significance.
Daniel Nathans
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To certain people there comes a day when they must say the great Yes or the great No.
C.P. Cavafy
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Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Friedrich Schiller
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I've got fabulous women friends that I kind of didn't have while I was married. I realized the great need for that when the marriage started to disintegrate.
Jane Kaczmarek
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Bradlaugh makes the most noise, but the Irish Evictions Bill is much the most serious thing. ... If the Eviction Act passes, there will not be many more seasons. It is a revolutionary age and the chances are, that even you and I may live to see the final extinction of the great London Season, which was the wonder and admiration of our youth.
Benjamin Disraeli
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I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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There is a great difference between the irreconcilable and the self-contradict ory.
Charles Hodge
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It's not Xs and Os. It's people and character and making great plays, ... It's more of a personal thing. It's the character. It's the fight - because up here most of the guys who get to this level are obviously talented.
Joe Gibbs
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I can't see myself leaving the club I grew up supporting... it's one of those things, the money's great but I still get paid reasonably well from the Lions and at the end of the day I think job satisfaction is the No.1 priority and I just love it up here.
Jonathan Brown
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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great in this country. And that is what we have to make sure we preserve for our grandchildren and future generations all the way through.
Douglas R. Oberhelman
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The curse of the great is ennui.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
Upton Sinclair
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With great power comes great responsibility. These are platforms with hundreds of millions of people.
Dave McClure
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I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.
Cobie Smulders
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There are many wonderful themes from 'Moana' that people discover, and I also hope they're inspired to go on their own journeys and to learn more about the Polynesian culture, because we're pretty great! I'm so proud of the people the filmmakers talked to - the Oceanic Trust.
Auli'i Cravalho
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it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
Elizabeth Janeway
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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Ella Maillart
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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
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It was a great non-league game for us. Their quickness is something we haven't seen and our girls are going to learn from it.
J. M. Roberts
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When I was very young, I started trying to sing like the great tenor Mario Lanza; my family used to play his records. We all learn best by imitating others.
Andrea Bocelli
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I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's, like, an action flick with a great director, then it's like, 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director, I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.
Armie Hammer
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Fantasy football is not only a good thing, but a great thing.
Jay Mohr
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I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.
Lynda Barry