Great Quotes

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

  

  Chris Wooding
  • Great

• So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

  

  George Cukor
  • Great
  • Light
  • Profound

• I could just go a few steps from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907 and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • House
  • City
  • Air

• The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

  

  John Burnside
  • Respect
  • Reading
  • Wonder

• It's the sum of many parts which grow to be something great.

  

  Oliver Bierhoff
  • Great
  • Grows

• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Great
  • Age
  • Service

• During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • Great
  • Period
  • Lake

• Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

  

  Caroline Rhea
  • Great
  • Guy

• People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.

  

  Yann Martel
  • People
  • Great
  • Sea

• As long as 1911, when I was still a member of the Socialist Party, I wrote that the Gordian knot of Trent could be cut only by the sword. At the same date I declared that war is usually the prelude to revolution. It was therefore easy for me, when the Great War broke out, to predict the Russian and the German revolutions.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Long
  • War
  • Party

• I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.

  

  Eli Roth
  • Great
  • Career

• I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

  

  Ashton Kutcher
  • Work
  • Passion
  • Scary

• What, like I want to look like Dick Clark? No. I think I look great with liver spots.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Great

• I founded DonorsChoose.org because I care about learning, and I believe every student in our country deserves a great education.

  

  Charles Best
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Education

• Hip-hop I never really got really into mainly just because I'm not a big fan of rap. I do like R&B artists like Beyonce. I'm a big fan of her mainly because of her vocals. They're just so awesome. I love her and Christina Aguilera, and that whole urban kind of feel is really great, especially with my voice.

  

  Christina Grimmie
  • Great
  • Rap
  • Awesome

• Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Great
  • Courage
  • Path

• It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people that are on that show. If you don't walk away from it with some kind of positive outlook or find an opportunity to come from it, then I feel like that's a choice.

  

  Crystal Bowersox
  • People
  • American
  • Opportunity

• I'm not a great deep political thinker.

  

  David Mitchell
  • Great
  • Political
  • Deep

• I had a lot of fun playing a naagin. It is all fantasy, so it was great.

  

  Karishma Tanna
  • Great
  • Fun

• When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Light
  • Waiting
  • Principles

• I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Great

• Finally, I also come in recognition of the great work that has been undertaken by the NGOs and UN agencies that have been active for many years here, especially through the local staff and international staff here in Somaliland and in Somalia at large.

  

  Jan Egeland
  • Work
  • Great

• You saw the apparent schizophrenia of these teams. They play great for a while and then they have trouble operating. What you see is young teams learning to play a consistent game. No quality in the direction of their discipline.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Game
  • Learning
  • Quality

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