Be Great Quotes

In Great Britain, woman was subordinate and confined. But at least she was also safe.

I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too.

It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.

I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

I'm not writing great literature. I'm writing commercial fiction for people to enjoy the stories and to like the characters.

I didn't inherit any great success and the problems that came with it, and yet I was able to keep working and supporting myself and later a family. I'm crazy fortunate.

Great success is a great temptation.

You can't be too influenced by a great poet. You simply have to live through it.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliché for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days.

Punk rock seemed to make sense. I was listening to The Clash and I really loved their social messages and they have a great history of fighting racism.

Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

My dad has always been such a great dad, and he's brought so much culture to my life. He dragged me to see every single movie at the cinématheque as a kid. I saw everything from Star Wars to Bergman.

[Dario Argento] would yell at you in Italian, and I'd have no idea what he was saying. I'd just go, "Okay!". But it was a really great experience [filming Two Evil Eyes ].

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!

In all great leaders there is a purpose and intensity which is unmistakable.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

People there’s a new sheriff in town. One of the great running backs in line of Pittsburgh Steelers [and] his name is Le’Veon Bell. He’s on his way people.

The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.

It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

Sleep doesn't seem necessary. You wake up feeling great. But it's not all great feelings.

A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

Every great thing requires a great sacrifice.

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Behind every great man is an even greater woman.

Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy!

I'm still learning....learning from my great grandchildren and everyone around me. I would advise others to keep trying, stop and listen.

The great happiness in life in creativity belongs to amateurs.

To have great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will, is undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word becomes even stronger.

Better to have small faith in a great God than to have great faith in a small god.

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.

A guy I interviewed for Hard Times says, "What do I remember about the Great Depression? That I was hungry, that's all." Elemental things.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.