All Quotes

The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.
‐‐ Guy Johnson

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

The great thing about Cairo is the vast majority of women wear some kind of head scarf, but they are also very fashion-conscious. They love bright colors.
‐‐ G. Willow Wilson

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.
‐‐ Duff Goldman

The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

The great thing about capitalism is that it's a system that works.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
‐‐ Roger Angell

The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
‐‐ Kathy Griffin

The great thing about comedy is that the longer you've been alive, the more you have to talk about and the better you get. I've got some miles and some road savviness that some other guys don't have.
‐‐ Greg Behrendt

The great thing about coming from where I come from - Liverpool and my family - is that we're very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.
‐‐ David Morrissey

The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces.
‐‐ Judith Miller

The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.
‐‐ Jessica Simpson

The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.
‐‐ Megan Hilty

The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.
‐‐ Paul Stanley

The great thing about doing theater is that you get to do it better the next night.
‐‐ Patrick Wilson

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
‐‐ Oscar de la Renta

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
‐‐ Melissa George

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.
‐‐ Joseph Fiennes

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.
‐‐ Paul Krugman

The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.
‐‐ Scott Porter

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.
‐‐ Bruce Feirstein

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook.
‐‐ Tony Danza

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
‐‐ Madeleine L'Engle

The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.
‐‐ Mike Love

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
‐‐ Yolanda Adams

The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
‐‐ Larry Brilliant

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop!
‐‐ Angelina Jolie

The great thing about having a child is that it keeps you very grounded. When I decided to have my daughter I was ready to have that responsibility and I made it clear to people that I work with that my job was no longer my priority. My daughter is now my priority. She comes first. Period.
‐‐ Carolyn Murphy

The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.
‐‐ Vera Wang

The great thing about having digital comics is that it is like having a comic-book shop on your digital device. It has turned comics from a destination buy to an impulse buy.
‐‐ Jim Lee

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
‐‐ Peter Mayle

The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.
‐‐ Catherine McCormack

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
‐‐ David Foster Wallace

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
‐‐ Anthony Mackie

The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
‐‐ Tananarive Due

The great thing about 'Justified' is that the writers will craft a scene, but if the actors come up with a great idea, they're 100% for it.
‐‐ Neal McDonough

The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
‐‐ Camilla Belle

The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.
‐‐ John Varvatos

The great thing about Los Angeles is that you can get so much money in this town by constantly failing. You can get a lot of television deals that don't go anywhere, but you still get paid.
‐‐ Daniel Tosh

The great thing about making an ensemble show is it becomes modular. It might work on the page to cut from one scene to another, but on the screen, it's more powerful to take that second scene and move it first or move it later.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.
‐‐ Mini Grey

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.
‐‐ Theodore Zeldin

The great thing about McDonald's is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.
‐‐ Jeffrey Wright

The great thing about musicals is that they transcend race.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha