Top 1200 Great Author Quotes & Sayings - Page 16
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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.
Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.
It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.
I haven't got ambitions. Actually, I'm determined not to die until I get very old. I want to be a great-great-great-grandmother.
There are a lot of authors in the world, so it's difficult to find a unique niche to present your take on things. That is always a challenge for any author.
If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.
There could be great thrillers or great dramas or great comedies made in that world but everyone's afraid of it. So you have to do them as these crazy little independent movies.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one that she took to the most was Some Like It Hot.
All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.
God blessed me with a great wife, a great family, and a great coach.
Dallas is a huge city. Great shopping, great restaurants, great museums.
Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.
My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.
Carrying a movie is both a great privilege, it's a great opportunity, but it can be a great pressure, and sometimes that can make people behave very oddly.
As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.
The greatest compliment to any player is he is a great teammate. We can't all be great players, but we can all be great teammates
For the black author, and even the ex-slave narrator, creativity has often lain with the lie - forging an identity, 'making' one, but 'lying' about one, too.
The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.
God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand.
We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.
I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.
At the end, we can embrace and love whatever we want of an author's work. But we also can't ignore a writer's express wish just because we don't happen to agree with it.
When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."
That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.
The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.
I still hold myself and my marriage up very high. I look upon it with great pride, great honor and great memories. I have no regrets.
As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.'
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy!
There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.
Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.
You know this is a great, great country that we live in to be able to play this great game.
I'd rather go with someone who wasn't a great speaker, but was a great chef, rather than someone who was a great performer, but maybe not a great cook.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
I am as great as the thoughts I conceive. I am as great as the Universe I perceive. I am as great as the love of my heart. I am as great as the God in my Soul.
Even the most elitist director or author who claims that he doesn't care if his works are seen or not, then I have to think that he's either a liar or a hypocrite.
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
Wembley is a ground with great history. It's hosted games and players of great prestige. It's always important playing on great stages like this.
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
I think every woman has this point in her life where she's like, 'I have a great job, great outfits and great friends, but something's missing.'
I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.
Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that.
What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.
I've been so fortunate in life to have worked for such great organizations, with great owners and general managers and all the great players, along with the support of my family.
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.
When you look at me see the father, the awesome dad, the author, film director, business owner, champion, friend, Hufflepuff beast.
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
Be a great capitalist. Be a great socialist. Be a great whatever you want to be, but do it with style, clarity and precision. That is the hallmark of those who seek higher knowledge and truth.
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
My great-great-great-grandfather or something, I think his father came before him; but, in the 1840s, he was a circuit-riding Baptist preacher.
