Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edie Campbell

I have a really great show jacket from Lavalliere that's really well made, and I have a great pair of Gucci jodhpurs, which is hilarious.

I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

Evan Williams

What the Internet is great at is building networks.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

Elyn Saks

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

Fred Allen

California is a great place to live if you're an orange.

Edward de Bono

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Alastair Cook

A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it.

Albert Camus

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Albert Camus

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us

Albert Camus

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.

Albert Camus

Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way.

Daniel J. Boorstin

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

David Mamet

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

Don Rickles

The old days were the old days. And they were great days. But now is now.

Damien Hirst

You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.

Andre Gide

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm really glad that I spent my twenties messing around and having disaster after disaster - with people who were doing likewise - because it's really my greatest treasure now.

Chuck Hagel

Nations, great nations have limitations. All nations have limitations. Even great powers have limitations.

Christopher Nolan

I never meet anybody who actually likes the format, and it’s always a source of great concern to me when you’re charging a higher price for something that nobody seems to really say they have any great love for.

Christopher Reeve

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Christopher Paolini

...but anyone with the time and the inclination can acquire technical proficiency. To achieve greatness, though, that requires artistry. That requires imagination and thoughtfulness...

Andrew Cohen

We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.

Allison Janney

It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

Ambrose Bierce

SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.

Alicia Keys

As a lyricist, you love to hear other great lyrics or other great concepts.

Alphonse de Lamartine

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Afrika Bambaataa

You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.

Rachel Nichols

I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

James Gray

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

Gary Bauer

The conventional wisdom is that if you've got high name recognition right now, the front-loading is going to be a great advantage.

We'll take great pains to retain as much of the original wood as possible.