Be Great Quotes
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.
A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.
Whatever you do in life, there's content and form; only those two put together create special meaning of a great work of art or great interpretation of music or a great story that you tell.
The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.
Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.
The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.
What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.
It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.
Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.
Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.
I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.
I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.
Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Yeah, definitely let's unleash her rage. Great idea.
The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.
Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.
Whether one was going to have a horse, or a dog, or a child, with that comes a great responsibility to raise them.
Who could have asked for anything better? I was cast in movies with great actors, with great leading men.
Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive.
The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.
That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
Speaking for myself, I try to go out there on the stage and make jokes with people, so I'm not really thinking about the impact anything I have. If it does resonate with people, that's really great.
If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.
In case the rest of you missed it, the inspirational speech was: 'If you work hard, you can achieve great things. And then you die'.
There are certain relationships I think I'm great at: I'm the world's greatest daughter. I'm a great relative. I believe I'm a great friend.
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.
I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
Maybe the best definition of what a great partnership or great love is when people make each other grow in a better direction than they would have grown on their own.
I like to move towards a place where my greatest experience is promoting happiness for others. I know that that creates a cycle of the same great experience.
I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.
I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation.
The weight of great power crushes the goodness of the man who rules and the honesty of those who are ruled.
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
Collaboration sometimes causes conflict, and sometimes it's easy, but the bringing together of great minds only adds.
Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.