Top 1200 Great Reading Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.

Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks called entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when reading or writing Visiting today's Iran, I was delighted to find that citizens made a point of defying the clerical ban on booze, keeping it in their homes for visitors even if they didn't particularly take to it themselves, and bootlegging it with great brio and ingenuity. These small revolutions affirm the human.

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.

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

Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.

I began reading cook books when I was six, cause my father had hundreds of cook books in the kitchen. I was obsessed with cooking and tasting different recipes. I got lost in being a compulsive eater. It brought me much happiness. Sadness too, sure. But I have to say, and compulsive eaters will agree with me, for that few seconds that you're eating, food tastes just great.

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.

Oh how swiftly the glory of the world passes away! If only the lives of these men had been as admirable as their learning, their study and reading would have been to good purpose! But how many in this world care little for the service of God, and perish in their vain learning. Because they choose to be great rather than humble, they perish in their own conceit.

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.

[John Musker] got me reading the mythology and we very early on we worked up a basic storyline centered around the character of Maui. He just seemed like a great character to kind of build a movie around. He's this mythic demi-god, bigger than life character. He pulled up islands with his magical fishhook. He slowed down the sun. He's Pan Pacific.

You know this is a great, great country that we live in to be able to play this great game.

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

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.

What creates success on HSN is great product, a great story and a great storyteller.

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'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.

Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over. Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them. Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many.

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

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.

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.

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

The script for 'Drive Angry' is a great read with great characters and great action.

And most of all, books. They were, in and of themselves, reasons to stay alive. Every book written is the product of a human mind in a particular state. Add all the books together and you get the end sum of humanity. Every time I read a great book I felt I was reading a kind of map, a treasure map, and the treasure I was being directed to was in actual fact myself.

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

P.S. Nothing personal, but I think this journal assignment is a waste of time. I know I have to do something to make up for all the work I'm missing at school, but I HATE busywork. And that's what this journal thing is. Half the teachers at school assign work they never read. When we get stupid assignments like that, I always write somewhere on my paper "blah blah blah" or "I bet you're not even reading this," are you? or "Give me a sign if you're reading this." They never are.

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

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.

Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you're already going to like. Experiment; try new stuff and try new genres. If you read a lot of romance, then start reading mystery. If you read a lot of mystery, start reading fantasy.

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.'

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

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.

I love fortune readings! because when I get in troubles, if the reading says that I am in a lucky day, I can think my troubles are just some kind of mistakes, and if the reading says that I am in the unlucky day, I can think that my troubles are just because of my bad luck. Either ways, I can know the reason of my troubles.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.

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

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

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

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

No player in the NBA was born wanting to play basketball. The desire to play ball or to read must be planted. The last 25 years of research show that reading aloud to a child is the oldest, cheapest and must successful method of instilling that desire. Shooting baskets with a child creates a basketball player; reading to a child creates a reader.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.

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

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.

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

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.