Great Quotes
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She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration.
Anthony Trollope
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My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, where their hard work and their students' achievement are applauded and rewarded.
Lionel Sosa
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Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative.
Leland Stanford
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No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.
Lyman Beecher
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Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books?
J. Arthur Thomson
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Had Mittag-Leffler had his way, I should have to wait until the year 1984, which to me seemed too great a demand!
Georg Cantor
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The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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I've learned that you can do something great, but you have to continue reinventing yourself as an artist. So by the time someone else is copying your style, you have something else to offer your audience.
Anthony Santos Aventura
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I love Jimmy Fallon; he's always a great time.
Andy Cohen
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I'm a huge Kelly Clarkson fan. I think she's great.
Emily Robison
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Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid.
Jamie Bell
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I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
Jacques d'Amboise
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One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.
Margaret Wertheim
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You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.
Alan Gerry
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A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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But it’s not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after.
David Brin
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Television is where the great movies that used to exist have gone.
Martin Freeman
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The best is only bought at the cost of great pain...or so says the legend.
Colleen McCullough
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I pumped on that one and he made a great catch, ... That got things going for us. That was a huge play.
Eli Manning
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Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.
James Surowiecki
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If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it in a certain way. I move kind of slow. I talk kind of slow. I let them know that I respect them.
James Nachtwey
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My brother had been given a chemistry set for his bar mitzvah, but he wasn't interested in it. It was upstairs in the attic, and I would sneak up there and use it at great peril because I was afraid if he found out, he would get very angry at me, but he didn't seem to care.
Eileen Pollack
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost