All Quotes

The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
‐‐ Kate Atkinson

The great thing about writing 'Deadpool' is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.
‐‐ Cullen Bunn

The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can see into the heart of all your characters. Usually, when there's a writing problem, it's because you aren't doing that.
‐‐ Peter Gould

The great thing about 'X-Men' is that it takes characters that are quite firmly established in the comics and puts them in new contexts.
‐‐ Josh Helman

The great thing about Yes is that it has always been flexible.
‐‐ Chris Squire

The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.
‐‐ Lindsey Stirling

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
‐‐ Janet Erskine Stuart

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is.
‐‐ Sam Shepard

The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
‐‐ Mark Pellegrino

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
‐‐ Famke Janssen

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.
‐‐ Anne Beatts

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
‐‐ Ed Miliband

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
‐‐ Alexander Wang

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.
‐‐ Nick Harkaway

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.
‐‐ Harvey Weinstein

The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.
‐‐ Allen West

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
‐‐ Heywood Broun

The great times are when you put a game on location and see others play it for the first time. After all, we are really kind of an entertainer. You perform for the joy of the audience.
‐‐ Eugene Jarvis

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

The great trap for non-American actors trying to play Americans, I think, is to start thinking of American-ness as a characteristic. It isn't. It is no more a character trait than height. It is just a physical fact, and that's all there is to it.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.
‐‐ Edmund White

The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.
‐‐ Ty Cobb

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
‐‐ Howard Crosby

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic.
‐‐ Comte de Lautreamont

The great universal literature has always had a tragic relation with freedom. The Greeks renounced absolute freedom and imposed order on chaotic mythology, like a tyrant.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare

The great vicarious work for our kindred dead in our temples demonstrates both the justice and the fairness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
‐‐ James E. Faust

The 'Great Walk to Beijing' was a fundraiser for my cancer center. It was a three-week trek with fellow cancer 'thrivers,' including celebrities ranging from Joan Rivers to Leeza Gibbons and Olympians.
‐‐ Olivia Newton-John

The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
‐‐ Catharine Beecher

The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
‐‐ Anne Sullivan

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
‐‐ Ralph Adams Cram

The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever.
‐‐ Stephen Ambrose

The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English.
‐‐ Robert Morgan

The great western error about the Taliban is to assume homogeneity.
‐‐ Philip Hammond

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
‐‐ Henry Miller

The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
‐‐ Irwin Shaw

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
‐‐ Francis Atterbury

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
‐‐ Michelangelo

The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
‐‐ Abigail Disney

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley