Be Great Quotes

For me, it's always filmmaker and then character and then story. They're all equally important but if you don't have a great filmmaker, you will not have a great film unless you just get lucky.

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

The great thing about my parents is they didn't preach anything they didn't practice.

A great philosophy is not one that passes final judgments and establishes ultimate truth. It is one that causes uneasiness and starts commotion.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

It is a great joy to believe that Jesus has been tempted in all points just as we are.

Great faith must have great trials.

Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.

Claire Danes is lovely and a really great actress.

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.

Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent.

I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy.

I mean, we should only be talking about the merits of film ["Moonlight"] because one of the great things about the visual language is that it is the great equalizer.

My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

I just want my songs to be memorable, and for people to hear my songs in ten year's time and remember the great times they had while listening to 'em.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

I have a blessed life. I really do. I have a great family, a great daughter, I love life, I love living, I love people. I love all the blessings that God's given me.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Governor Romney has been a great success in business. He has been a great success as executive, as governor of Massachusetts. I think that's the kind of guy we want in the White House.

People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

I'm lucky to just be a working actor. There are so many great actors out there and I'm just lucky to have gotten work.

As corny as it sounds, I'm often pinching myself going, 'What great opportunities and great parts and great people that I've gotten to work with.

The path of the knowledgeable, successful person, which only leads to supreme good fortune and great success is always directly in front of you.

You can write a great country record and still be angry. Who's angrier than Toby Keith? He's angrier than the average 10 rappers.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

I want to record Goyescas by Granados, which has been a great love of mine since I was a teenager.

'Twilight' has been a great opportunity, and it's been great fun. Hey, if I'm 50, and someone still wants an autograph for 'Twilight,' OK, cool.

In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life.

I'm an impulse buyer. There are so many great things online! Having two kids, I feel like that's an easy, fun way to shop without letting it take up your entire day.

I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

A Great voice has fallen silent. A great heart has stopped.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.