Great Quotes
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The weak, when they have authority, surround themselves with the weak. It is, indeed, a vice of rulers that men who have exceptional ability and worth are offensive to them, since they whose greatness is due to their position find it difficult to love those whom inner power makes great.
John Lancaster Spalding
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The thing about the four-camera shows is that it's kind of a great combo of theater and film. You have an audience, but you have a camera to capture things, so that's a great thing, too.
Carol Kane
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My job is to reaffirm the core vision and values that have made this company great and resolve the issues that have recently come to light.
B. R. Hayden
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I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
George Lindsey
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The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated - we only do 12 shows - the writers are more at ease in terms of mapping out the trajectory of the story and the characters.
Jimmy Smits
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The alarm on my wife's phone is 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered,' so that's a great way to wake up.
Andy Grammer
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If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.
Gautama Buddha
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Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good.
Tacitus
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Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.
Jeff Greene
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I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn't any film to be made.
Mike Newell
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I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.
Emilio Estevez
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Education to me is the most important thing that we've got going in this country. I mean, a lot of my family are teachers. I was the recipient of a great public education, and I see that's one of the first things that we're going to go, 'What are we going to raise?' The ignorant masses.
Craig T. Nelson
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There is a great deal of pressure, in the one particular area at least, to prostitute our ideas, if not our integrity.
Joe Biden
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My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.
Deborah Mailman
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That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were going left to right, looking at people and smiling in the way that Diana did - and that diamond tiara glittering like mad. It was great.
Bruce Oldfield
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The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
Amy Poehler
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A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible.
C. S. Lewis
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In my movie work, if I do one guy, the next guy I do, I want to do something kind of different. Even in terms of genre - it's really great to mix it up a little.
Kevin Bacon
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A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.
Clayton Christensen
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If you've ever been to a great clown show, there's always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There's something fantastic about the improv of it all.
Annaleigh Ashford
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I was a novelist first. But in the mid-'80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, 'You know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.'
George R. R. Martin
