Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Erskine Stuart

Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.

Janet Erskine Stuart

It is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one.

Janelle Monae

Perfection is the enemy of greatness

Janelle Monae

Perfection is often the enemy of greatness

Jane Porter

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

Jane Porter

People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

Kurt Fuller

The Tracy Morgan you see is the Tracy Morgan in real life. He's a great guy but... man, is he a nut.

Kyle Kinane

I still love a well-crafted joke. Twitter's been great for that.

Pictures are very important. I remember at home we had illustrated editions of Rudyard Kipling's 'Just So Stories' and 'The Jungle Book,' which were read to me. Living in Zimbabwe made it very real, especially the 'Just So Stories' with the 'great grey-green greasy Limpopo.'

Kit Harington

I don't want people thinking they know me instead of the character. Steve McQueen has loads of stories about him - who knows what's true? But it's great for people to fictionalize rather than know the truth.

Kim Raver

I just am a huge fan of PBS. They've taken great risks from great shows.

Kevin Plank

I was always telling people I was doing great, even if I wasn't.

Jake Roberts

There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.

Harry Styles

I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.

Fred Hoyle

It seems to be a characteristic of all great work that it creators wear a cloak of imprecision.

Frank Herbert

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

Frank Herbert

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Frank Herbert

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

George Henry Lewes

All great authors are seers.

George Herbert

A great ship asks deep water.

Jean de la Bruyere

False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.

Jean de la Bruyere

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Jean de la Bruyere

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Jean de la Bruyere

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Jean Baudrillard

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Cassandra Clare

I saw Jonathan after he faced the fear demon, you know. It showed itself to him as you. That told me all I needed to know. The greatest fear in Jonathan’s life is the love he feels for his sister.

Kim Campbell

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

Kathleen Parker

Great nations don't have to remind others of their greatness. They merely have to be great.

Karl Pearson

All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

Karl Marx

A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production.

Kristin Chenoweth

Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can acually live on.

Myles Munroe

Great leadership is not attained by pursuing greatness but by persevering through great tests.

Myles Munroe

The greatness of a man is measured by the way he treats the little man. Compassion for the weak is a sign of greatness