Be Great Quotes

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is "yes," then I'm doing ok.

I am a fan of Hrithik and I feel he will be a star for 30-40 years. He is really great.

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.

In the corporeal world, international law is whatever the United States and Great Britain say it is.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.

People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.

My first job was baby-sitting. I had a great time because I love kids. Sometimes, when I'm having a bad day, I'm like: "Oh, you know what? I'm going to chuck it in and become a kindergarten teacher!"

In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.

[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.

It's about paying attention to the little things, the details... Constantly rediscovering your partner, knowing there's a way out of any crisis.

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

I'm feeling great. I'm a star. That's about it.

Paste is a great music lover's resource. I tend to agree with their album reviews and find their interviews a bit more intriguing than those of other music magazines.

I'm a great fan of Woody Allen's movies.

We have to make sure everyone in California has a great job. A fantastic job!

The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great.

My mom is really great with me and for me, because I think she makes an effort to make sure there is some normalcy in my life, and her and my dad don't really treat me any differently.

It is pleasant to be admitted into the birth-chamber of a great idea destined to be translated into action.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

A revolution simply means great change, significant change, and that's how I'm defining it - great change for the better, brought about through non-violent means.

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

I love being in the studio. It's really great. I like it a lot. But of course, I like performing more. But when I'm in the studio mode, it's cool. I like to really focus on it.

Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream.

We are still the America that does the hard things, that does the great things. We're the nation that always dared to dream. We're the nation that dared to take risks.

I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done.

I have great respect for both President Obama and the office that he holds

First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression.

This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be.

I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France.

Great sales people [don't] have the ability to feel sorry for themselves.

Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?

His great passion for education and [making sure] people have an opportunity. Of course that's what came out of the George Mitchell Institute and his scholarships in those high schools.

Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

Those who have few affairs to attend to are great speakers. The less men think, the more they talk.

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.

The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.