Top 1200 Great Poetry Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

I definitely see the voice as an instrument: It makes great drums, great synth pads, great everything.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

Manchester United are a great club, and being associated with them is a great compliment for me, but Atletico are also great.

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.

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.

The French have never produced a great philosopher. Great wine maybe, but no great philosophers.

I've been given the tools necessary to be a great musician, a great entertainer, and great person that's gonna inspire everyone.

Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality... If poetry is your goal, you've got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it's you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else... There's the artist's responsibility; and the most awful responsibility on earth.

Being successful doesn’t necessarily make you great. What makes you great is when you reach back and help somebody else become great.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

Every Great Story deserves a Great Ending and 'The Dark Knight Rises' is our Attempt to give that GREAT story, a GREAT ENDING.

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

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.

America became great through immigrants... I hope that this great country will recall what has made it great.

Flip Saunders is a great coach and a great guy. Glen Taylor is the same way. He's a great human being.

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.

Italian is a very different poetic situation and there are these hard and fast rhythmic periods, settenari, ottonari of seven and eight syllables. These are fundamental to the way people speak and write and breaking them is more radical in Italian than when we break a line. I'm sure there are Italian poets who want to write poetry as prose and break these Petrarchan rules. And breaking them is fun and a valid thing to do. But I'm more interested in trying to write poetry that absorbs tradition and uses it in new ways, and doesn't throw it out.

The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of the writer. This is completely understood about poetry or fiction, but it is too seldom realized about books of fact. And yet the impulse which drives a man to poetry will send another man into the tide pools and force him to try to report what he finds there.... It would be good to know the impulse truly, not to be confused by the 'services to science' platitudes or the other little mazes into which we entice our minds so that they will not know what we are doing.

To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference - a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference - is a great thing.

The great saints were always great innovators... They had to be very strong people... principled people. And, apart from their principles, with great tenacity they had to have great reserves of patience.

I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

No matter what your background or where you are from, the one thing we can all respect is when great athletes and great passion leads to great achievements.

I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.

Don Cooper is an incredible person. He's not only a great pitching coach, but he's a great human being and a great friend.

Nothing great was ever achieved without great work and great effort. It's really that simple.

We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a fact. A miracle is the counterfeit of a fact. There is the same difference between a myth and a miracle that there is between fiction and falsehood -- between poetry and perjury. Miracles belong to the far past and the far future. The little line of sand, called the present, between the seas, belongs to common sense to the natural.

Great direction, great acting partner, great character backstory - these are all rare luxuries to have in the room.

Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them

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.'

I have a great band from Jersey and New York. I say that because they got great attitude, and we have a great time on stage.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

It was tough leaving Boston with a great city, a great organization and a great bunch of guys.

When we look at the arts and letters in America, especially if we look at poetry, and poetry set to music, this dialogue, we have this very powerful beautiful, eclectic, diary, or narration of being in America, being American, participating in America, becoming more of America and also as an American, the American creative spirit, which is quite interesting. Our composers and poets have spent more time writing and thinking and speaking out of what it means to be a composer or poet as well as to be an American, or a composer or poet In America; both relationships.

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.

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.

When Roman Polanski did give you a "Great, great, great!" you were just like, "Thank you, Lord, for this magical moment."

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

I'm not a great manager; I try to be a great leader. And for me, that's been going through a process of not how to be a great CEO but how to be a great Evan, and that's really been the challenge.

To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He's a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.

I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.

My grandparents were from Kentucky - I'm related to Daniel Boone. He was my great-great-great uncle.

I had great teachers, great ensembles, and great companies to work with who supported my career.

There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.

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.

If one believes philosophers, then what we call religion is only a deliberately popularized or an instinctively artless philosophy. Poets seem to consider religion rather as a variation of poetry which by misjudging its proper beautiful game takes itself too seriously and one-sidedly. Philosophy, however, admits and recognizes that it can begin and complete itself only with religion. Poetry seeks only to strive for the infinite and despises worldly utility and culture, which are the true antitheses of religion. Eternal peace among artists is thus not far away.

I always go for just really, hopefully, great writing and great acting, being in the company of great actors.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to be a great songwriter and a great performer. And I mean really great.

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.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

There is great wisdom, there's great strength and there's great beauty in all of our religion, and those should be marshaled for good.

It's great to see wrestling expand and get the attention it deserves. It's such a great, great sport.