Great Quotes

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular role with what she is going thru, especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism to her on the job performance, was a great opportunity for me as an actress.

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.