Greatest Quotes
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The greatest tragedy of human existence is the illusion of separateness.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
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Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
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The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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Birds are the first and the greatest performers.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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Of all the waste we generate, plastic bags are perhaps the greatest symbol of our throwaway society. They are used, then forgotten, and they leave a terrible legacy.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
