All Quotes

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
‐‐ Ariel Durant

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.
‐‐ Jon Evans

A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.
‐‐ Adam Hughes

A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
‐‐ Raymond Carver

A great day in New York would be to wake up, get a cup of coffee and head up to Central Park for a nice walk. Then I'd go down to the East Village and stroll around. After that, maybe I'd go check out a museum or catch an indie film at the Angelika.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Chriqui

A great deal has been learned about cell communication. The universal nature of cellular structure and organization in bacteria, plant and animal cells has been discovered.
‐‐ Gunter Blobel

A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It's a core value - it's common sense - it's important to keeping and growing jobs - and it's mainstream!
‐‐ Tim Pawlenty

A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
‐‐ Jonathan Kozol

A great deal of American T.V. viewed on Hulu, which is superb - '30 Rock', for instance, is on very good form.
‐‐ Ben Schott

A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
‐‐ Margaret Heffernan

A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.
‐‐ Maelle Gavet

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone.
‐‐ Kevin McCloud

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
‐‐ Saul Bellow

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
‐‐ Billy Campbell

A great deal of my mail comes from fans of the 'Oz' picture - fans of all ages. The scholarly, the curious, the disbelievers write and ask how? why? when? what for? did you fly? melt? scream? cackle? appear? disappear? produce? sky-write? deal with monkeys? etc., etc., etc.
‐‐ Margaret Hamilton

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.
‐‐ David R. Brower

A great deal of stupidity has chipped away at the massive advantages of Western civilization, which could terminally decline if it remains on the current path. But these problems can be solved - and swiftly - if the right leaders emerge.
‐‐ Paul Singer

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
‐‐ Sydney Smith

A great deal of the capability of an army is its dedication to its cause and its will to fight. You can have the best equipment in the world, you can have the largest numbers in the world, but, if you're not dedicated to your cause, if you don't have the will to fight, then, you are not going to have a very good army.
‐‐ Norman Schwarzkopf

A great deal of the work I do involves the military.
‐‐ Ander Crenshaw

A great deal of unnecessarily bad golf is played in this world.
‐‐ Harry Vardon

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.
‐‐ Katherine Boo

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
‐‐ John Cotton Dana

A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.
‐‐ Poppy Delevingne

A great economy requires great public schools.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
‐‐ Vivica A. Fox

A great fortune is a great slavery.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great free joy surges through me when I work... with tense slashes and a few thrusts the beautiful white fields receive their color and the work is finished in a few minutes.
‐‐ Clyfford Still

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson

A great guy who is no longer in the league right now who is retired, Kyle Vanden Bosch, I learned a lot from him, and I owe him a lot for my success in the NFL.
‐‐ Ndamukong Suh

A great idea is not enough.
‐‐ Rosabeth Moss Kanter

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
‐‐ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
‐‐ John Morley

A great leader also has the ability to make people an inch taller in his presence.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
‐‐ George Crabbe

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.
‐‐ Robin Wright

A great literary work can be completely, completely unpredictable. Which can sometimes make them very hard to read, but it gives them a great originality.
‐‐ Yann Martel

A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

A great man is always willing to be little.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.
‐‐ Paul Valery

A great man is the man who does something for the first time.
‐‐ Alexander Smith