Be Great Quotes

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time of great tragedy, nothing is being lost but money.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.

One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.

I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

Acting is kind of a calling for me so I'm just happy to be there and do great work.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

I have the greatest appreciation for Governor [Sarah] Palin and her family. There's great joy to know them.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.

Great vision communication usually means heartfelt messages are coming from real human beings.

Depend upon it, the first universal characteristic of all great art is Tenderness, as the second is Truth.

All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.

All great art is the expression of man's delight in God's work, not his own.

My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

In vain shall Great Britain confer upon her colonies the free government and liberal principles of legislation, for which she is distinguished, if she do not carry with her the revelations of God.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

The great thing about the dead, they make space.

The world is just going to continue to fragment, and that's a great thing.

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

To be a great actor you just need to comprehend, so that's why I became a writer.

I love Boston and I always will. I'll always have terrific memories and great fans here.

I went out as a free agent in Boston and had a great year and I priced myself out of there market, at the time.

We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.

There is no such thing as great work without longevity.

I really had a great time working with Modest Mouse, just because of the people. I loved writing songs with Isaac Brock, and Jeremiah Green is probably my favorite musician that I've worked with.

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

There are plenty of guys who played great golf, had great careers and only won a few majors.

I used to think that great art happened without argument, and maybe that’s not the case. Maybe the things that are most important in this life, you have to fight for.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

I had a really nice association with Richie DeRosa, a great musician, a great drummer and composer and arranger. And I had a number of classes with him.

You hear about the struggles with substances and all that, but [Phil Wood] was a really a great guy. This was a great man.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

You possess the (pro.pen.si.ty), propensity to become one of the great success stories.

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

Gymnastics is definitely my job, but the great thing about that is I love my job.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.