Be Great Quotes

In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.

Love and life belongs to great risk.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

I believe in the great spirit and intelligence of Americans.

The minds that rise and become really great are never self-satisfied, but still continue to strive.

No, I'm not a great painter. Neither am I a great poet.

There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.

I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.

I've had some great times with actresses, but that's in a movie.

One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

You have to comply, you have to obey - or you'd better resign and leave. But that is also the mark of a great leader - somebody who, in the presence of inner conflict, will do the right thing.

I don't know if I'm going to do any more acting. It's a great job, you know? Make a movie? Why not?

Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

The literary scene is filled with young people now, which is a great joy. They seem fully capable of saving the world, as we failed to do when young, though heaven knows we tried.

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

American Idol' has done a great job of defaming my name and throwing a lot of mud at me for the past two years, so that set up a lot of roadblocks for me.

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it!

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

As I review the great history of our nation, community organizers have been at the center of so many of our great social movements.

“Lovelace” was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can’t get no better than that, right?

It's a great day for America, everybody! It's Monday, woo.

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Genesee beer. The great outdoors in a glass.

There have been great things that happened to me.

On a court full of great writers, I shouldn't say full of - there have been some bad writers on the court over the years.

Great art is created only through diligent and painstaking effort to perfect and polish oneself.

We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.

We know the "great men" and a handful of heavily cited papers in our specialization. When there is a historical frame around a paper it's often a caricature that has become canonical.

I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone.

I think the fact that Anna Nicole [Smith] clearly did not have a great relationship with her mother made the judge very reluctant to allow the mother to decide where she gets buried.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I don't necessarily think I look to books for ideas, but sometimes when I'm in the process of reading a great book, I just think about it all of the time.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

I'm really great in other peoples relationships.

Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.

No great power is ever satisfied with its sphere of influence. They never are.

There are lots of secretaries who send off special envoys and yes, say, "Do a great job," and that's fine until it costs you something. And then they cut you off.

Nothing can be taken for granted and this great achievement is now under assault by Russia. But what we did in my time is no less honorable. It is for the present generation to defend.

I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very early age, but I put it aside for a while, because I got very realistic at one point.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.