Be Great Quotes

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

I got to experience a world championship with some great teammates.

Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

I was an amazing bartender and a great waiter. I think, in a way, that was my acting school.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

I want to deal with what's in front of me now to the best of my abilities, and sometimes that's not very good. But a lot of the days it is really great.

The best way to be productive is to have a great team. So I spend more time than most CEOs on human resources. That's 20 percent of my week.

The fundamentals that founded our great nation included the freedom of speech and religion.

The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.

I like a quiet evening with family or friends over, great food and great discussion and a lot of laughter. That's really what I think fills my tank.

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it's a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France.

Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

I have great faith in the intelligence of the American viewer and reader to put two and two together and come up with four.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

Denzel Washington has a great sense of humor. He did all those 'Nutty Professor' movies.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean, I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff, but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

President Ford used humor a great deal.

I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.

My fam is just a regular family. But all of them have great senses of humor.

You see, that's another thing that my parents gave me: an enormously great sense of humor.

My dad was very much a John Wayne kind of guy, but he was also a great guy, great sense of humor, a real dedicated dad. I don't think he ever missed a hockey game I was in.

Sites like Funny or Die and College Humor are great, but I'd say it's appealing to 80% men and 20% women.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.