Great Quotes

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.

Cornwall is one of the most beautiful places, with great people - there's not a great downside to it.

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great.

I've lived such a great, fantastic life already, but there's still so much more.

I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say,'Isn't this great?' or 'Can you believe?' And I would react, like, 'No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.'

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way.

I think it's great to dress up and play on all the girly features.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

My kids are doing just great.

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

I always entertain great hopes.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

I think great romance needs great obstacles and textures.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown in the -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you deal with the hand you're dealt?

I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms - the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.