Greatest Quotes

Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

My greatest honour was to be included in the Australian Olympic team in 1992, 1996 and hopefully 2000.

Dustin Hoffman was the greatest. He had so much information to give and he mesmerized me. He really feels for actors who are just starting out and remembers his early days like they were yesterday.

We are the greatest country in the world but we are facing serious issues.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

Getting through high school and college was one of my greatest achievements.

The long-established and noble rule of Law, one of the greatest products of the character and tradition of British history, has suffered a deadly blow. Blackmail has become respectable.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

I know the law... I am it's greatest transgressor.

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

The greatest fight is when you are fighting in the smoke and cannot see with your eyes.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

Chekhov - shall I be blunt? - is the greatest short story writer who ever lived.

Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.