All Quotes

Great art picks up where nature ends.
‐‐ Marc Chagall

Great art should be shown with great excitement.
‐‐ Thomas Hoving

Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.
‐‐ Shea Hembrey

Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.
‐‐ Peter M. Brant

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
‐‐ Margot Fonteyn

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
‐‐ Carmen Ejogo

Great artists have no country.
‐‐ Alfred de Musset

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

Great artists suffer for the people.
‐‐ Marvin Gaye

Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It's more of a mental stretch.
‐‐ Savion Glover

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
‐‐ Andre Gide

Great battles can make great heroes and heroines.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

Great brands are meant to be great aggregators.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.
‐‐ Rosalia de Castro

Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
‐‐ Ann Veneman

Great Britain has long been one of our strongest friends in the free world.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.
‐‐ Dean Acheson

Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.
‐‐ Francois Fillon

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

Great businesses can be built on scale. I think Amazon has built a phenomenal commerce business largely on scale. Their network effect isn't obvious to me, but boy, have they used scale effectively.
‐‐ Jeff Jordan

Great businessmen are creators.
‐‐ Eric Cantona

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
‐‐ David Steinberg

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.
‐‐ James Levine

Great causes and little men go ill together.
‐‐ Jawaharlal Nehru

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
‐‐ Nancy Lopez

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

Great companies are built on great products.
‐‐ Elon Musk

Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out.
‐‐ Dylan Smith

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

Great companies that build an enduring brand have an emotional relationship with customers that has no barrier. And that emotional relationship is on the most important characteristic, which is trust.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
‐‐ Jacques Pepin

Great countries are those that produce great people.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Great countries need to secure their border for national security purposes, for economic purposes and for rule of law purposes.
‐‐ Jeb Bush

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.
‐‐ Andy Hobsbawm

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
‐‐ Drew Barrymore

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
‐‐ Martha Graham

Great dangers give birth to great resolutions.
‐‐ Auguste Escoffier

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
‐‐ Herodotus

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
‐‐ Pindar

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
‐‐ James Randolph Adams

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
‐‐ Alexander Graham Bell

Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.
‐‐ Maria Monk