Top 1200 Great Ones Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Sometimes people can write really great scenes and even a great episode, but they can't see the bigger picture.

I dislike a great deal of contemporary poetry - all of the past you read is usually quite great - but it is a useful thorn to have in one's side.

I love Hunch, the awesome team, my brilliant cofounders - we're doing great work and building a great company.

I am a great supporter of [Matteo ] Renzi, he is young, he knows how to communicate, he's our great hope.

In a great play or a great film, there's a rehearsal period and they find this character. On TV, everything moves fast.

I always look forward to playing great players, great scorers, because I pride myself on my defense.

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those circumstances, work is great too.

For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry- great. To have hopes, dreams- great.

All great natures delight in stability; all great men find eternity affirmed in the very promise of their faculties.

Not everything looks great on Google. Megan's meltdown on Celebrity Big Brother' is not great. A classic - but I'm embarrassed by it.

It's always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.

Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the photo tint have changed over the years to the point that he looks green. One of my family members apparently still has the piece of paper that listed every thing in his pocket when he got shot.

Read the great stuff, but read the stuff that isn't so great, too. Great stuff is very discouraging. If you read only Beckett and Chekhov, you'll go away and only deliver telegrams for Western Union.

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

I am Oz, the Great and Terrible," spoke the Beast, in a voice that was one great roar. Who are you, and why do you seek me?

I get to see great places like Vegas - there's a lot to take in, isn't there? - and to have big names tell you that you're great, it's amazing.

Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

We're basically responsible for making sure you have a great time. If you buy a Blizzard game, we want that to be a great experience.

Underwear is such a great gift, but try to go for brands that flatter your girlfriend's shape - a little structure can be great.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.

New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.

I'm very proud of the album I made with Adrenaline Mob, and I think that there was really a great chemistry there; it was a great band.

Seeing Jay Z's just a great example of somebody who comes from a ghetto to rise to where he's at. I think... he done a great job.

You can be nervous when the referee starts the game but you must get rid of all the nerves and enjoy a great stadium and great pitch.

Both Ram Gopal Varma and Subhash Ghai are great directors and it was a great experience working with them.

How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

Great sorrows have no leisure to complain: Least ills vent forth, great griefs within remain.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

I love those words: killer instincts. Great teams, great players, they develop that, and it's not something that has to be said.

I have huge respect for Preet Bharara, a great U.S. Attorney by any measure. But even great men can make mistakes.

Sanity -- that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Just because a musician writes a great album doesn't mean they don't want to continue writing great music.

I think Bruno Mars is a great example of a great voice and classic songwriting with a twist that makes it contemporary. I think he's done a great job of it. I think Katy Perry has undeniable songs for what she does, for that pop market. And, if we're talking in the truly pop market, I would say those two.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Each one of us is called to become that great song that comes out of the silence, and the more we let ourselves down into that great silence the more we become capable of singing that great song.

A great player can win, but cannot claim titles alone. You need to have a great team who are close and able to support you.

There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.

All great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

I've played for a great club in Corinthians and been successful. I moved to Shakhtar and that turned into a great move too.

George W. Bush was great on the belief that America was the solution to the world's problems, not the problem, and was a great defender, believer.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they've been part of my education as a woman.

I don't have a pattern in my life. That makes me a great boyfriend because it's exciting. But I may not make a great husband.

Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.

Wild liberty breeds iron conscience; natures with great impulses have great resources, and return from far.

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all.

When government gets out of the way, the people achieve great things because of the promise of great rewards.

Be great at what you do, and don't ever settle for mediocrity or else you will always wonder how great you could have been.

It's an experience like no other experience I can describe, the best thing that can happen to a scientist, realizing that something that has happened in his or her mind exactly corresponds to something that happens in nature. One is surprised that a construct of one's own mind can actually be realised in the honest-to-goodness world out there. A great shock, and a great, great joy.

I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.

Some people are just gifted with a great voice, other people are gifted with great emotion, other people are gifted with great engagement - when you find all of those things in one package, you have Taylor Swift.