All Quotes

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.
‐‐ Harold Nicolson

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
‐‐ Lewis Thomas

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

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
‐‐ Rafael Correa

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.
‐‐ Marty Robbins

The great spirals... apparently lie outside our stellar system.
‐‐ Edwin Powell Hubble

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
‐‐ Red Cloud

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
‐‐ Hugh Blair

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The great teams find a way to win.
‐‐ Allan Ray

The great test of life is obedience to God.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life. It is not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.
‐‐ Henry B. Eyring

The great thieves lead away the little thief.
‐‐ Diogenes

The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.
‐‐ John Mackey

The great thing about a name like 'Cougar Town' is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It's a very 'loud' title. But there's a connection to the word 'cougar' that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
‐‐ Dan Byrd

The great thing about a painter is that he or she lives on - I mean, Andrew Wyeth is more in his paintings than he was walking around.
‐‐ Jamie Wyeth

The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.
‐‐ Claudia Gray

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
‐‐ Emma Donoghue

The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.
‐‐ Topher Grace

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
‐‐ Amy Grant

The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you've got a beginning, a middle, and an end.
‐‐ Emma Thomas

The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.
‐‐ Gil Bellows

The great thing about acting is that you get to be a lot of different things in one lifetime. You get to explore different personalities and characters.
‐‐ Eva Amurri

The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you're singing.
‐‐ Nikki Reed

The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
‐‐ Pat Conroy

The great thing about 'Allen Gregory' is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
‐‐ Jonah Hill

The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
‐‐ Pardis Sabeti

The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
‐‐ Eric Braeden

The great thing about 'American High' is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
‐‐ R. J. Cutler

The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too conservative, as it's always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
‐‐ Jean Paul Gaultier

The great thing about animation is it's like the radio. I used to do lots of radio when I was a kid, and you get to play parts you would never get to play ordinarily.
‐‐ Bill Nighy

The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
‐‐ Ron Perlman

The great thing about athletics is that it's like poker sometimes: you know what's in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you've got to keep up the front.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
‐‐ Gabe Paul

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
‐‐ Sparky Anderson

The great thing about Batman and Superman, in truth, is that they are literally transcendent. They are better than most of the stories they are in.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman

The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.
‐‐ Aaron Douglas

The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we're not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
‐‐ Bill Walton

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The great thing about being a producer on a project is that you get to see the ins and outs of every piece of the puzzle. There are so many elements involved in every aspect of a film's development that I don't think the average person is aware of, which is, I guess, why the whole process is referred to as movie magic.
‐‐ Roberto Aguire

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
‐‐ Martin Cruz Smith

The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
‐‐ Julia Leigh

The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you're able to start knowing exactly where you're going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you're constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both.
‐‐ Rose McIver

The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.
‐‐ David Morrissey