Great Quotes

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book. But if we remove that from the equation, it's the same impulse and they are equally entitled to their ecstasies and their despair.

Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

A great American city is fighting for its life.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

Our great American writers were all newspaper people.

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.