Great Quotes

George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

That was my choice at that time, and I still say Nixon was a great president. A very beautiful and wise man.

People always try to separate the good from the bad in Clinton and say that, if he had not done certain things, he would have been a great president. But you can't do that. Those were his major characteristics.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis.

Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.

I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family.

It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.

Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.

It's a remake of a film called Inferno Affairs. It's a Hong Kong film, and if we come anywhere close to what they did in the original, we're going to have a hot property on our hands, because Inferno Affairs is a great piece.

I was asked by a group to write a song on the theme of brotherhood. This was before women's liberation, when brotherhood meant men and women both, so I wrote the song. Since I had always been very fond of the Passion Chorale, I wrote words to that great piece.

I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

I mean, I can look back with great pleasure on what has happened in Sudan, and our commitment to people who are persecuted in that kind of way.