Great Quotes

I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway.

This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.

A great deal has been accomplished by the team, and I do think it important that it goes on and it is allowed to reach its full conclusion. In fact, I really believe it ought to be better resourced and totally focused on WMD; that that is important to do it.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate weight of prose.

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.