Great Quotes

It's been a great privilege to serve the people of Pennsylvania.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

There's a great public disinclination toward politicians.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint you can at it.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.