Great Quotes

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.

Most great records really start with the drums.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Love is so confusing - you tell a girl she looks great and what's the first thing you do? Turn out the lights!

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

I think everybody should have a great Wonderbra. There's so many ways to enhance them, everybody does it.

The most successful people I've worked with, like the Rolling Stones - people of a different, kind of legendary caliber - have such great, warm energy.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.