Great Quotes

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Being a Barrymore didn't help me, other than giving me a great sense of pride and a strange spiritual sense that I felt OK about having the passion to act. It made sense because my whole family had done it and it helped rationalise it for me.

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

Great businessmen are creators.

When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I'm not sorry, and I'd do it again no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.

People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change.

Turning away Turkey from the EU would be a great, long-term - a century-long - error by Europe.

Habit is a great deadener.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

A sense of humor is great - it goes a long, long way in a marriage.

I had a great childhood.

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.

And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

I love school. I was a great student.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.