Great Quotes

But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

W. Somerset Maugham
- Art
- Energy
- Moving
I caught hold of the great bull market in soybeans in 1977. I had no idea what I was doing, incidentally.

Bruce Kovner
- Great

Dada was given the Venus of Milo a clyster and has allowed the Laocoön and his sons to rest awhile, after thousands of years of struggle with the good sausage Python. The philosophers are of less use to Dada than an old toothbrush, and it leaves them on the scrap heap for the great leaders of the world.

Jean Arp
- World
- Good
- Rest
I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.

Cardi B
- Life
- Up
- Great
Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Up
- Remember
- Opportunity
When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.

Peter Mayle
- Up
- Writing
- Money
It's so interesting how you can take a bad situation and make a great song out of it that somebody else can listen to and have a completely different perspective of the song and have their own meaning. That's what's great about it.

Lauren Alaina
- Different
- Bad
- Song
Hollywood has given me a great, warm hug.

John Boyega
- Great
- Hug