Great Quotes
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You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.
Rickey Henderson
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I have a great fondness for the liars in my stories.
Alice McDermott
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My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great, something special.
Sugar Ray Leonard
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Every great love starts with a great story.
Nicholas Sparks
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The idea of being icons, I think it's great when you're 24. It's fantastic.
Ian Astbury The Cult
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I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
Jon Lovitz
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If you become great, then you can become happy. If you're happy first, it's much more difficult to be great.
Ivan Lendl
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Italians are great improvisers. If something unforeseen happens, they throw up their hands, and they adjust.
Max von Sydow
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I think people have to recognise that the traditional modes of authority weren't that great.
Jimmy Wales
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Chicago is a great city.
Mohamed Bamba
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Horses calm me. I love being around them. They smell great, they are beautiful to look at, they are loving, demanding, temperamental, and they settle you.
Shania Twain
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Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problems solved in a courtroom. We like to go to court. It seems heroic to go to court. We think we're the new, great advocates, better than anything we've seen on TV, and we come home exhilarated by having gone to court.
Janet Reno
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In my opening seconds, I would say, "It's great to be here," then move to several other spots on the stage and say, "No, it's great to be here!" I would move again: "No, it's great to be here!
Steve Martin
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The destination you think is going to make you happy, doesn't. I always find myself thinking, "I'm getting ready right now, but when I get to the party it's going to be great!" Once at the party, I find myself going, "Man, can't wait to get in bed tonight. I'm pooped." It's like that with my career, too.
Eric Lange
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I think it's great when stories are dark and strange and weirdly personal.
Robin Williams
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I'm great at dishwashing.
Mirai Nagasu
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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
Thomas Carlyle
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Doyle Dane Bernbach was a great, great agency when I got there. There was an arrogance that everyone had, but it was a closed club. I was a guy who worked a little differently. Edgier. More punch-in-the-mouth.
George Lois
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
Delbert McClinton
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It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.
Anton du Beke
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
Thomas Carlyle
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In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction. Nowadays a young man hardly envies anyone his gifts, his art, the love of a beautiful girl, or his fame; he only envies him his money. Give me money, he will say, and I am saved...He would die with nothing to reproach himself with, and under the impression that if only he had had the money he might really have lived and might even have achieved something great.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.
Eric Metaxas
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They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.
Charley Johnson