All Quotes

A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

A great mantra to have, whether you're breaking up with your boyfriend or you lose your job, or something changes that you didn't anticipate - which is a fact of life, and very much a fact of running a business - is: 'I was OK before this, I will be OK after this.'
‐‐ Sophia Amoruso

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A great many of us have been concerned about the presidential nomination system... whether or not we have drifted into a system that simply doesn't work so well any more.
‐‐ Terry Sanford

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
‐‐ Neale Donald Walsch

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
‐‐ Ramsey Clark

A great many people mistake opinions for thought.
‐‐ Herbert V. Prochnow

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
‐‐ Edith Sitwell

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
‐‐ Mark Strand

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true.
‐‐ Catherine Crowe

A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
‐‐ John Henry Newman

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
‐‐ John Henry Newman

A great mind becomes a great fortune.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.
‐‐ Alan Parker

A great nation like the United States has many and varied interests, and we need both to do business with tyrants and to engage constantly in multilateral diplomacy.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.
‐‐ Richard Schickel

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.
‐‐ Christopher Hampton

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
‐‐ Fanny Kemble

A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.
‐‐ Steven Berkoff

A great painting is a great painting.
‐‐ Larry Poons

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures.
‐‐ Susan Strasberg

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
‐‐ James Payn

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

A great pickup line is one I don't even notice. It has me connecting with you, laughing, having a good time. And that definitely gets my attention.
‐‐ Jennifer Morrison

A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it.
‐‐ Spike Jonze

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
‐‐ Ludwig van Beethoven

A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.
‐‐ John Kasich

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
‐‐ Tom Stoppard

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
‐‐ Thomas Sprat

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

A great restaurant is one that just makes you feel like you're not sure whether you went out or you came home and confuses you. If it can do both of those things at the same time, you're hooked.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

A great review is great. A bad review is the worst.
‐‐ Don Winslow

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda

A great scientist is more open to a new idea than almost anybody.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

A great screenplay makes everybody step up to the bar and deliver.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
‐‐ Harold E. Hughes

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
‐‐ F. Scott Fitzgerald

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
‐‐ Quincy Jones

A great song is a great song.
‐‐ Tessanne Chin

A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.
‐‐ Moby

A great song is one that is around even when I'm not.
‐‐ Tessanne Chin

A great song should make you stop everything that you're doing. You should be so into it that you just can't imagine doing anything else for that moment. You wouldn't even dream of picking up the phone.
‐‐ Kara DioGuardi