Great Quotes
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The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.
D. H. Lawrence
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Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country.
Mitchell Joachim
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I guess it's like James Joyce when he was a kid, you know. He hung out with all the great writers of the day, and he was a little kid, like, with tennis shoes on, and they said 'Look at this lame!' They didn't use those words in those days. They said 'God, here comes this nut.' And he told them, 'I'm great!' And he sat with them, and he loved to be with them, and it ended up that he was great.
Art Pepper
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I think 'Eastbound & Down' is one of the great television shows, ever.
Adam Scott
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If you have the 'Total Information Awareness' project working, it might be relatively easy to find everyone who had bought more than a ton of fertilizer and 500 gallons of diesel in the last year, which would be a great way of spotting potential Tim McVeighs - but it would also spot half the farmers and ranchers in America.
John Perry Barlow
Grateful Dead
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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I worked in an office. I was like an assistant. So, I would just answer phone calls, coordinate events. It was a great day job. I worked with amazing people, but obviously, whenever you are doing something that's not your dream, you kind of feel like, 'Oh, I'm on this grind.'
Kelly Marie Tran
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Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.
Anton Chekhov
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I'm a huge fan of women; I think we're great.
Nikki Haley
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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.
John Lee Hancock
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I may be the only actress in Hollywood who won't need a face lift, because when I take off my makeup, I look so great compared to my characters!
Lin Shaye
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The substantive difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is not really that great.
Allan Nairn
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The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
John Boehner
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I'm all over the place with muffins. Carrots are great. Banana, chocolate chip, they rock, too.
Shawn Mendes
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Great persons are great because of good, strong foundations on which they were able to build a character.
Alfred A. Montapert
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Against a team as great as they are, you have few opportunities to take control. We didn't take advantage of the opportunities we had.
Dan Monson
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He has been a world champion - great for him - but listen, whenever Lennox Lewis wants to come out of retirement, I'm here waiting for him because I'm the best British fighter to come out of these shores.
Tyson Fury
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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 thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.
Jason Statham
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I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'.
Dalai Lama
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
Oliver Goldsmith
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As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.
John Burnside
