Top 1200 Great Wall Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Science has great skills, great reasoning and great intelligence in combining effects. It knows HOW to do many things but it admittedly does not know the WHY of anything.

It's great extremes which leads to great drama and great comedy.

My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

I love my wife. We've had a few slings and arrows across the room, but I'm not prepared to give in, you know? People say she saved my life, but at the same time, I saved her life, as well, I think. She's a great mother, she's a great wife, she's a great worker, she's a great manager. She's just great.

We have the great fans in Detroit. We've got a great ballpark, great stadium.

In truth, government has been good to Wall Street and big business.

If I find great material, or a great character, or a great director that wants to do something on TV, or whether it's in film, or whatever it is, man - as long as it's good, and on the level, I'm open to it.

The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed the power of self-motivation .

You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.

Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?

No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

Great people are not affected by each puff of wind that blows ill. Like great ships, they sail serenely on, in a calm sea or a great tempest.

A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it

I want to have a diploma to hang on my wall. Even if I don't use it, I can say I graduated from UF.

It's important for people to talk and get beyond the wall of Facebook and social media.

Then, when the Fed's fire hoses started spraying an elephant soup of liquidity injections in every direction, and its balance sheet grew by $1.3 trillion in just thirteen weeks compared to $850 billion during its first ninety-four years, I became convinced that the Fed was flying by the seat of its pants, making it up as it went along. It was evident that its aim was to stop the hissy fit on Wall Streetm and that the thread of a Great Depression 2.0 was just a cover story for a panicked spree of money printing that exceeded any other episode in recorded human history.

When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'

In a way, 'WALL-E' had some of the same disturbing elements that 'Up' does.

Letters of the condemned. Last words scratched on a cell’s wall. To write like that.

Great loves were almost always great tragedies. Perhaps it was because love was never truly great until the element of sacrifice entered into it.

I think you must remember that a writer is a simple-minded person to begin with and go on that basis. He's not a great mind, he's not a great thinker, he's not a great philosopher, he's a story-teller.

When you hit a wall find ways to go under and over, but never give up.

The trickle-down experiment that began in the Reagan years failed America's middle class. Sure, the rich are doing great. Giant corporations are doing great. Lobbyists are doing great. But we need an economy where everyone else who works hard gets a shot at doing great!

It is natural to admire and revere really great men. They hallow the nation to which they belong, and lift up not only all who live in their time, but those who live after them. Their great example becomes the common heritage of their race; and their great deeds and great thoughts are the most glorious legacies of mankind.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

We need a wall or a sophisticated fence, as long as it secures our border.

Dybala only lacks the belief that he is a great footballer. After his great experience at Palermo he had a great start with Juve and he did beautiful things.

Tom [Cruise] is a great producer himself. He's got great sense of story. It's always great to have the perspective of the person who's playing the character in your film.

Have a great, great marriage. Have a great time together. You know something? You'll disagree sometimes, and you'll find out how stupid it is, and then you'll be OK. You will.

I like having my back against the wall and doing things I'm not supposed to be good at.

No wise man will go to live in the country, unless he has something to do which can be better done in the country. For instance, if he is to shut himself up for a year to study science, it is better to look out to the fields, than to an opposite wall. Then, if a man walks out in the country, there is nobody to keep him from walking in again: but if a man walks out in London, he is not sure when he will walk in again. A great city is, to be sure, the school for studying life.

I obviously would love to play with a great, great, great quarterback.

When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great.

So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.

I always say that, if you have great actors and great storytelling and great monsters, and you mix them together, nine times out of 10, it explodes in your face.

And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

One man pins me to the wall, while with another I walk among the stars

I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

Law is when you don't have a method of solving a problem... It's just nailing a proclamation on a wall saying, 'Don't do this.'

Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.

Hillary Clinton at the end of the day will be a friend of Wall Street.

Whenever I'm around Spanish people, I'm kind of like a fly on the wall.

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights of Leonardo da Vinci. Two hundred years from now, when you ask what are the great things that came from this era, I think it's going to be an understanding of the universe around us.

I have a suspicion, because if you look at the whole, all the [Star Wars ] movies, the backlog of every one of these movies, there's a lot of great stuff, but one might not be not as good with the writing in this or the acting in that or the directing in that, this has great actors, great directors, great script, and I really feel like we're gonna make the best one [movie with Young Han Solo].

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?

Look at the blogosphere - the biggest lavatory wall in the universe, a palimpsest of graffiti and execration.

The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great.

It's common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

Wouldn't it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

Time is truly the great enemy. It's not the great healer, it's the great stealer.

They climbed the ladder of learning only to find it leaning against the wrong wall.

Mutual funds are an overrated investment heavily promoted by Wall Street.

Everyone's life would be improved if they do could one great magic trick. And tell one great joke, play one tune on the piano, and do one great origami fold.

I would rather be arrested as a traitor than fight a war for Wall Street.

Wales was great. The people were great, and I had a great time there.

For the Olympics, I'm mostly training in the gym, so I'm running laps on the standard speed wall.