Be Great Quotes

I was a great many far cries from myself.

I only tweet if I discover something that's fantastic, or if I heard something really great.

I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

I doubt anybody gets taken seriously for very long. I'll be on some reality show in about six years going, Hey, I had a great year in 2006.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

To a great night, a great Lanthorne.

Great business turns on a little pin.

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

It is a great victory that comes without blood.

Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out.

Life is great and golf has been one of the great parts of it for me.

There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.

The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.

The great thing about America is, you don't have to listen unless you want to.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression.

I hope that's what the taxpayers of Great Britain expect, is expect us to, when we make investments in countries, that they work. And they don't work if a nation doesn't invest in its people.

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

I think you're just always trying to find really great, interesting female roles. That's the thing for me. You do have to think about what you're signing up for.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

I think the most important thing is that everybody is happy creating, and doing what they want to do, and have really great relationships with each other.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

I'd never really done comedy before Community, so getting to work day in and day out with all these great people, directors, writers, and actors, I feel like I've learned a lot.

It's always good to have your fan base and to continue to do what you love to do and making a living and seeing the people and travel and do everything, it's always a great thing for me.

I think lowering the age of consent to thirteen in New Jersey was a great idea. It might give boys a better chance to get girls before maga­zines. That's when they get hooked, in junior high.

I never had a great role in a great film.

I suppose more than anything, chefs have gotten better, which is great news, which makes my life a lot easier. I can be a lot more creative in terms of the menu.

It has always stood for f***ing great food.