Great Quotes

• You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it.

  

  Lester Holt
  • Great

• The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Faith

• I am convinced that if you serve great value, people will come to you.

  

  Eric Ripert
  • People
  • Great
  • Value

• Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • People
  • Good
  • Two

• There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

  

  Carol Leifer
  • Up
  • Women
  • Advantage

• For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.

  

  Walter Rodney
  • Great
  • Struggle
  • Oppressed

• I wanted a half-hour, single-camera comedy with a great lead where I could be No. 2 or 3 on the call sheet, and it was going to get on the air. Those were my criteria, and they sent me 'Cougar Town.' I read it and loved it.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Single
  • Comedy
  • Air

• Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Great

• I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

  

  Mark Pincus
  • Great

• I don't usually read self-help books, but I read a great book by a guy called Wayne Dyer: 'The Power of Intention,' which I loved.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Book
  • Power
  • Help

• I want to be part of great cinema. That is my only aim.

  

  Anushka Sharma
  • Great

• The movies of our particular childhood were so great that it's almost impossible to recapture that magic, especially as adults.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Great
  • Childhood
  • Magic

• Growing up in a family of actors, what's great about it is that they're very supportive and they understand what it's like to be an actor - the rejections, the highs and lows... and having a common language with them is great because you have shorthand speech.

  

  Chris Pine
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• My mother was very funny. My dad had a great sense of humor. My grandmother, too.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Mother
  • Funny
  • Dad

• The great British public is renowned throughout the world for its sense of humour.

  

  James William Middleton
  • World
  • Great

• Take thou thy arms and come with me, For we must quit ourselves like men, and strive To air our cause, although we be but two. Great is the strength of feeble arms combined, And we can combat even with the brave.

  

  Homer
  • Arms
  • Cause
  • Combat

• If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; but if you make but a little of Christ, Christ will make but a little of you.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Christian
  • Littles
  • Deals

• He really didn't need me. I was a little bit insulted, but I'm proud of him because I think he did a great job.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Great
  • Job
  • Proud

• Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.

  

  Dale Peck
  • Anything
  • Making
  • Actually

• Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now.

  

  Neil Pasricha
  • Always
  • Moment
  • Right

• We've learned a great deal. And that's why you fly a test flight, so you can learn.

  

  John Young
  • Fly
  • Learned
  • Test

• Real learning, attentive, real learning, deep learning, is playful and frustrating and joyful and discouraging and exciting and sociable and private all the time, which is what makes it great.

  

  Eleanor Duckworth
  • Learning
  • Private
  • Discouraging

• The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.

  

  Mark V. Hurd
  • Great

• 'The Critic' was so absurd, and I loved that. I loved working with Jon Lovitz, I think he's got a great, great voice for animation.

  

  Rich Moore
  • Absurd
  • Animation
  • Critic

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