Great Quotes

I think it's important for people who love music to retain physical CDs or even vinyl, because it sounds so great and so much warmer than music over the internet.

I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Her great merit is finding out mine - there is nothing so amiable as discernment.

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

Life should be great rather than long.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.

Tonight - to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

The great object is that every man be armed.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.