All Quotes

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.
‐‐ Ron Goulart

The great commandment of life is to love the Lord.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.
‐‐ Ernest Newman

The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
‐‐ Steven Price

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It's really precious, and it's really easy to lose.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
‐‐ Andrew Jackson

The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness.
‐‐ Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
‐‐ Dean Acheson

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
‐‐ Paul Keating

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
‐‐ Harry Houdini

The great decision was the Explorer program. The thing we did not do well is that we allowed and somewhat encouraged too much exposure to the program.
‐‐ Astro Teller

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
‐‐ Milton Friedman

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors.
‐‐ Nicolas Roeg

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
‐‐ Amelia Barr

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
‐‐ George Santayana

The great difficulty with Guantanamo is it was perceived correctly as being a place where people were not being detained subject to rules. I don't think the world thinks that you can't detain suspected terrorists - the world thinks you can do that, but you have to do it pursuant to rules and to clear charges.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
‐‐ Alexander Mackendrick

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
‐‐ James Buchan

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
‐‐ Roy Jenkins

The great discoveries are usually obvious.
‐‐ Phil Crosby

The great divide is not between faiths, but one between intolerant zealots of any tradition and the large numbers of decent, peaceful believers likewise found in each tradition.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
‐‐ Martin H. Fischer

The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
‐‐ Arthur Erickson

The great earthquake shall be in the month of May; Saturn, Capricorn, Jupiter, Mercury in Taurus; Venus, also Cancer, Mars in zero.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The great effort of civilization has been, and still is, the attempt to introduce a principle of control into that casual swarm of impressions which makes up men's thought and of which, especially with swayed by emotion, spontaneous action is the law.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.
‐‐ Tryon Edwards

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
‐‐ George Orwell

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

The great equalizer is health. If you don't have it, you're screwed.
‐‐ Jami Gertz

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!
‐‐ Andre Geim

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The great fact of individual difference and variability (that is, inequality) is evident from the long record of human experience: hence, the general recognition of the antihuman nature of a world of coerced uniformity.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
‐‐ Valentino Rossi

The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right?
‐‐ Ridley Scott

The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

The great fun of doing new plays is that people have no idea what's going to happen next. That goes quite soon, as people start talking about it, and the only way you can keep hold of that is genuinely to keep changing it.
‐‐ Stephen Daldry

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
‐‐ Gaston Bachelard

The great games are the space sims and driving sims and these experiences where you're basically sitting at a table with nothing happening in front of you. A lot of interesting things are evolving there. There are great games that can be made.
‐‐ John Carmack

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
‐‐ Frank Delaney

'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
‐‐ Henry Rollins