Great Quotes

• I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Great

• It's normally in the morning, just playing around. And I'm not saying everything I make is great, but that's what I do. I can't even remember how I wrote stuff.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Morning

• 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
  • World
  • Waiting
  • Champion

• To win is great, but we could have easily let it go the other way. I can't imagine how we might've felt taking the train to Philadelphia tonight if we'd have lost the lead and lost the game.

  

  Eddy Curry
  • Game
  • Win
  • Imagine

• The universe evolves from the unknown, into which no man or mind, however high, can inquire, on seven planes or in seven ways or methods in all worlds, and this sevenfold differentiation causes all the worlds of the universe and the beings thereon to have a septenary constitution. As was taught of old, the little worlds and the great are copies of the whole, and the minutest insect as well as the most highly developed being are replicas in little or in great of the vast inclusive original. Hence sprang the saying, "as above so below" which the Hermetic philosophers used.

  

  William Quan Judge
  • Universe
  • Little
  • Worlds

• You can't test great advertising. You can only test the mediocre. Not that I don't care about demographics. You have to understand who you're going after.

  

  George Lois
  • Great

• Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Live
  • Way
  • Interesting

• I like it when someone tells me 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Great
  • True

• If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Great
  • Painting

• Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Great
  • Women
  • Book

• Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Great
  • Mistake

• Basically, great directors know how to combine music with the scenes that they are working on.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Great
  • Music

• We had a great chance in the mid-2000s to reach an accord with the Chinese on both energy and environmental issues. That deal would have essentially been that the U.S. could provide the equipment and expertise, and the Chinese would help close the trade gap. It was a huge opportunity that we failed to exploit.

  

  David E. Sanger
  • Help
  • Opportunity
  • Energy

• What a great privilege it is to be here.

  

  Bonnie L. Oscarson
  • Great
  • Here
  • Privilege

• In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.

  

  David Harley
  • Great
  • Sacrifice
  • Achieve

• Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.

  

  Christopher Ferguson
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Nation

• It's one thing to sit back and say, 'Hey let's play a club, that will be great,' but then you get there and say, 'Hey wait, this is the dressing room? Where's my dressing room?'

  

  Trent Reznor Nine Inch Nails
  • Great

• What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Art
  • Book
  • Painting

• 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

• George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

  

  Ray Stevens
  • Forever
  • George
  • Jones

• '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

• Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Alive
  • Scene
  • Directors

• Theaters are great. They're designed to sound good, not for basketball.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Good
  • Great
  • Basketball

• Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Great
  • Truth

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