The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson
The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.
‐‐ Kenneth Clark
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.
‐‐ Ethel Barrymore
The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.
‐‐ Steven Berkoff
The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.
‐‐ Gloria Stuart
The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
‐‐ Kevin Kelly
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
‐‐ Dorothy L. Sayers
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw
The great advantage of a novel is you can put in whatever comes into your head - it has the same shape as the human brain.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq
The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties.
‐‐ Graham Greene
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
‐‐ Mariella Frostrup
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
‐‐ Arnold Bennett
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
‐‐ Michael Bond
The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.
‐‐ Tony Blair
The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.
‐‐ Leland Stanford
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
‐‐ Herbert Spencer
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden
The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
‐‐ Bee Wilson
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
‐‐ Ty Cobb
The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.
‐‐ Donald Wuerl
The great amount of fun that I have is I can cast dramatic actors to play comedic roles, and I can cast comedic actors to play dramatic roles because, really, there's no such thing. There's just actors.
‐‐ Noah Hawley
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
‐‐ Rand Paul
The great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
‐‐ Jacques Maritain
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
‐‐ Freya Stark
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
‐‐ George Whitefield
The great and the good will decide what is good for us and make sure that we get what is good for us, good and hard.
‐‐ Nigel Farage
The great and unlooked for discoveries that have taken place of late years have all concurred to lead many men into the opinion that we were touching on a period big with the most important changes.
‐‐ Thomas Malthus
The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke
The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.
‐‐ Steven Pinker
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!
‐‐ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
‐‐ A. J. P. Taylor
The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.
‐‐ Louise Brooks
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
‐‐ Lord Byron
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee
The great attraction to 'American Gangster' is these two great characters who are absolute paradoxes within their own sphere.
‐‐ Ridley Scott
The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
‐‐ M. Scott Peck
The Great Bailout is mostly over for the banks. But for those troubled behemoths of the nation's housing bust, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the lifeline from Washington just keeps getting longer.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg
The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
‐‐ Robertson Davies
The great break of my literary career was going to law school.
‐‐ Scott Turow
'The Great British Bake Off' has brought baking to the nation, and we've seen people from all walks of life and backgrounds experience the highs and lows of competition and, more importantly, helping each other.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood
'The Great British Bake Off' is family entertainment. There aren't many programmes where all ages can sit and watch from beginning to end. Everything else is violent, cruel, and noisy. We're educational without viewers realising it.
‐‐ Mary Berry
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
‐‐ John Morley
The great challenge working on this show for me is wearing polyester all day long and having the worst haircut known to man at the top of my head and sitting under fluorescent lights. That is America, people. Polyester, bad haircuts, under fluorescent lights.
‐‐ Rainn Wilson
The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
‐‐ Pancho Gonzales
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
‐‐ Paul Keating
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
‐‐ John Keegan
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
‐‐ Seth Low
The great classics that, as a professional you don't get to do, you do as a student, when you don't know any better.
‐‐ Marion Ross