Be Great Quotes

My dad is a great manager. He's not just competent - he's very clever.

I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others prayed I only moved my lips

I've done a lot of bad TV and bad movies. I've also done some really great things.

I was responding to one thing for the woman I knew, and there's another thing for what did she give, right. She [Nina Simone] was a great teacher.

In 2009, South Carolina was blessed to welcome a great American company that chose to stay in our country to continue to do business. That company was Boeing.

I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.

I've had great experiences or joyful experiences making a movie that people found very disturbing.

It is reported that about 30% of the world's population is unemployed. That's worse than the Great Depression, but it's now an international phenomenon.

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.

Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.

Michael O'Donoghue was a very close friend of mine - very encouraging with my stuff, and really a great guy - but he was a no-kidding difficult person.

Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive. They're really great supporters, and they really love music. I think it's a total outlet for them.

My father is a great grandfather. He's a wonderful grandfather, but he's a terrible husband.

Everyone has access to a pen and paper, but to be a great writer is difficult.

If you make a great film full of emotion, of pathos, people want to continue to know more, to work harder.

Freedom of speech doesn't guarantee great literature.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

To make great art, you had to expose your soul, and some things should be left safely in the dark.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I think it's really great that people share their work [on Myspace] and no one is paying for it. I think that's a very healthy thing and it's not a corporate thing.

Committing great work does not necessarily feed you.

I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

It's uncomfortable, definitely, but it's also really, really great to talk drums with kids and hear them get excited about music and talk about listening to the drums.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

An obstacle is something you see when you take your eyes off the goal Few great men could pass personnel

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

The work element comes into it as well - how much you train and how much work you put into your craft, in the same way a carpenter would perhaps work under a great teacher, etc.

America's Older Americans add great value to our Nation.

I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.

I like being surrounded by great people.

Life is not one tone: you laugh and you cry, and your heart breaks, and you have great, great happiness.

I'm pretty excited about the state of TV these days. There's great opportunity for really complicated relationships, in a way that I don't really see as much in movies anymore.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

We should never underestimate the great power of the way of love which reaches that spark of good in the other person, always there no matter how deeply buried, and the person is disarmed.