Top 1200 Great Thing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

I think the great thing about working for Marvel is no matter who is in the driver's seat, they seem to be making good stuff.

There's one thing that's really great about waking up early, and it's not jogging or greeting the day - it's just that that's when they make doughnuts.

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

Having faith, beliefs, and convictions is a great thing, but your life is measured by the actions you take based upon them.

My life is devoted to self-delusion - and I have a great capacity for that - but it's the thing that gives me the most pleasure, so I can't complain about it.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

I've had a great life. And I want that one more thing, to be up in a Virgin Galactic spaceship with Sir Richard Branson.

The great thing about the electronic music scene is that everybody can be part of it either by dancing, DJing, or organizing a party.

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

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

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

I see love developing from friendship. Common ground is a strong basis for friendship. My husband is my best friend and we have a lot in common even though we're admittedly different people. I think it evolves from how I see relationships working. You know, the opposites attract thing happens all the time, but so does the best friends thing. It's just a great kind of relationship in fiction.

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

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

For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.

That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Faith is a great thing, and really religious people would like us to believe that faith and knowing are the same thing, but I don't believe that myself. Because there are too many different ideas on the subject. What we know is this: When we die, one of two things happens. Either our souls and thoughts somehow survive the experience of dying or they don't. If they do, that opens up every possibility you could think of. If they don't, it's just blotto. The end.

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

I feel like if you turn on country radio, you will find something you'll love because it's so diverse.And that's a great thing.

When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.

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

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

When you do children's TV or one episode [guest] stuff, you have to listen, which is also a great thing to learn. But you don't have individual input.

That more women are getting involved in politics - either by running for office, managing campaigns or voting - is a great thing.

Modeling is great because I don't have lines to memorize. But I find acting much more challenging - which is a good thing!

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

That's the great thing about big cities: Nobody is judging. You really get a chance to show who you are with your style.

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

At the core of investigative journalism is exactly the same thing that drives a page-turning thriller: telling a great story.

Before 'The OC,' I was on track to do some great films... and one thing happens, and then I got this mega-stardom all from this show.

In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

Every day, I work at not taking this fame thing seriously. Fortunately, I have a great group of friends who help me do this.

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

Winning the European Championship was a great thing for me, and I understood what it was to win a major trophy and what I had been missing.

The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of course there's also the West End with its brilliant theatres and thriving tourism but to also have areas like Hackney which are so community based but not exclusive, that remind you that those surrounding you are the most important, is what makes London what it is.

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.

You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats like to do is to wrap theirselves up in mystery, perhaps only except for a hobby of jumbling up everything that is in order. And if the cat can, and usually so, make a great mystery of where it was when you were searching for it even if a moment ago it was sitting by your side, do not have any doubts: its ancestors had a great pleasure to surround its origin by mystery.

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.

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

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop!

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is that they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop. That's who you are!

Being a father is the greatest achievement and the most important thing about me. I have two great kids, no question.

The great thing about not having a script is there's nothing you have to shoot that day. When you start filming, you can shoot anything you want. There's no pressure to shoot anything. Whatever interests you that day is what you're shooting. That's a big liberation that makes it more enjoyable and more relaxed. I think if you have that kind of framework it can make it a much more satisfying thing to work on and to watch as well.

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 how great we get with digital formats of instrumentation, nothing really quite duplicates the real thing

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

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

For you to be able to take a picture of yourself that you feel good enough about to share with the world - I think that's a great thing.

The first thing [in career and motherhood] is a great husband. That I found many years ago and I am lucky in that way.

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

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

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.

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

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.