Be Great Quotes

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born?

I like to go through the zine sections of local bookstores when on the road and have found a lot of really great kind of underground stuff that way. It all feeds into everything else.

Dennis Hopper is one of the great American lives.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

I was very much influenced by a great book by the scholar Neil Richards called Intellectual Privacy, that [Louis] Brandeis changed his mind on the proper balance between dignity and free speech.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.

A lot of my colleagues at school became great friends of mine.

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

Pain is a great teacher, but most of us would rather learn some other way.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

I love it when people ask who my influences are... or what my favorite part of my last book was... or the last great book I read.

There are great people everywhere, and there are all kinds of exceptions to any generalizations, and it was a huge privilege for me to get to learn that.

All those girls who were mean to me[in high school], I pay them back by going through the drive-through window and asking for my burger. That feels really great.

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.

One of the great things going on right now is social media and you get a real sense, immediately, about what people are feeling and thinking.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.

A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.

has done a great job walking a thin line between revenge and remedy.

Game of Thrones is great. Love it.

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

I take great responsibility in any character that I play.

I want my whole life to be a great work of art, not just my art. And that means paying attention to my entire life and trying to make sure my whole life is balanced.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

Running gives you a great opportunity to work stuff out in your head.

There are certainly great cities in America that don't have ATP and WTA events. Our fans are very provincial. They want American champions.

We have a lot of options. America is a great country.

Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

We have a really, really great dog. It doesn't bark. My dog almost smiles, which is weird. He's just a very happy dog.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

Happy he who like Ulysses has made a great journey.

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things.

I played piano for about two years when I was a kid. I didn't play long enough to be really great.

Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

That's the great thing about the future - nobody knows what's going to happen. That's what makes it all exciting.

I don't think anyone can ever put into words the great things (Joe) DiMaggio did. Of all the stars I've known, DiMaggio needed the least coaching.

Look at Israel. Israel is a great country for examples on how to do security.

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend, and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off, be well off no matter who.

It's gonna be one of the great achievements of this administration.

Matter of fact, the way we got a path, a great friend, Arlen Specter, I convinced him to switch parties. Not a joke. Not a joke. He was the deciding vote.

Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."