Great Quotes

• You've got to think of fun stories, and if the fun story happened to have a lesson, that's a great thing. If you build a movie around a lesson, you're in real trouble.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Real
  • Movie
  • Fun

• Fresh out of grad school, I arrived for my first day of work at Deloitte ready for the long haul. For my generation, that's what those early years were about - laying the foundation for a lifelong career with a great organization. More than 30 years later, I'm still with Deloitte, and I have no regrets.

  

  Punit Renjen
  • Work
  • Long
  • School

• I believe that a great character can be made in one scene, or a few moments.

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Moments

• There is one Quality, which has somewhat so heavenly in it; that by so much the more we are possess'd of it, by so much the more we draw nearer to the Great Author of Nature.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • Nature
  • Quality
  • Author

• When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • Experience
  • Space
  • Moving

• I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

  

  Jo Brand
  • People
  • Great
  • Friends

• Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.

  

  John Hurt
  • Great
  • Truth

• I had great difficulty in school interacting with others, and I took refuge in the contrived setting of play acting, which is what I still do.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Great
  • School

• Personally, even though I have a great PR team, no one except my husband and I touch any of my 10 social media accounts. It's a lot of work, but I know that my brand, my image, and my voice are authentic to me.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Work
  • Team
  • Husband

• Intrinsically, I'm the same person I was as a young lad, and I think I still have the optimism of life, still the same wants and desires to be good and great about what I do.

  

  Pierce Brosnan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great commotion.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Water
  • Ocean
  • River

• The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.

  

  Duff Goldman
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Magic

• When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Great

• Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Soul
  • Faith
  • Individual

• The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • Great
  • Democracy
  • Honor

• As an actor, you want new challenges. U.S. TV can be very formulaic. So when something gets a reaction, as 'The Slap' has, that's great. The sense I get is that it's not about me or my performance. More than anything it's the subject matter that people are focused on.'

  

  Jonathan LaPaglia
  • People
  • Great

• Every great love brings with it the cruel idea of killing the object of its love so that it may be removed once and for all from the wicked game of change: for love dreads change even more than annihilation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Killing

• We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • People
  • Great
  • Mistake

• I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Great
  • Long

• February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it's so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it's so great.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Good
  • Why
  • February

• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

  

  Chanakya
  • Great

• Since we don’t have a time machine, we can only make educated guesses about the looks, skills, and personality of each individual.… We took great care not to contradict biblical details.

  

  Ken Ham
  • Time
  • Great
  • Personality

• I want to feel lucky every night when I go onstage, and not feel like, 'Oh, great, here we go again.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Great
  • Night

• They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness. . .The saints'. . . knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted. . .with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Joy

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