Be Great Quotes

I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

The key to the success of any producer is to have a great team around.

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

I had a great mother, and I'm very comfortable with that maternal element.

Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

When I think of the people I've worked with, all of them have great passion, and the passion is what keeps people inspired.

It was great working with Kevin Smith - just a dream.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.

The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.

You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

If it's a great role or a great film, then you're happy to be a part of it.

The Wars is a great book, rich in its images, its language, its construction, and, ultimately, its conception.

It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges.

The great thing is that when you hire string players you always get really great players. I don't know why that is.

It's really hard to write a screenplay, it's nauseating. All those great writers that tried to write screenplays, they couldn't do it, most of them - John Faulkner, whoever, Aldous Huxley.

When you do well in a movie that's seen as really great, you're revitalized for six weeks.

Everybody can have one great year. I've got to prove I can do it again.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices and also a great power in our land. The friends of freedom are content to be envied, but envy not.

I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

What I think is really great about this movie [42], that young people who weren't there will have a chance to have the visceral experience of what Jackie Robinson went through.

[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope from television.

If you do a great job in one thing, people look at you that way and it's hard to break out of that.

I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.

I've always had great relationships and stayed really good friends with the guys I've dated.

Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead.

Great men are the real men, in them nature has succeeded.

To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand.

The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.

If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . . he will be surrounded by grandeur.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

I have great faith in a seed.

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

I'm actually a great fan of lucidity.

A great business success was probably never attained by chasing the dollar, but is due to pride in one's work, the pride that makes business an art.

Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape their direction. All great writers demand great critics.

I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.

Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing it, and the great effort of those who created and recorded the work is damaged.

In the city of Pyongyang, you don't have to look very far to see an image of the Great Leader, Kim Il Sung. They love the guy. He is responsible for the wonder that is North Korea.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

I think risk-taking is a great adventure. And life should be full of adventures.

Music allows the great opportunity to play with people you love.