Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joshua Bell

When I hear people clapping at the wrong times, I think that's great. We have got a listener that's not used to going to - we have got a new listener.

Demosthenes

Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Denis Diderot

To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to define him.

Edgar Allan Poe

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Elbert Hubbard

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

Elbert Hubbard

Many people fail in life, not for lack of ability or brains or even courage but simply because they have never organized their energies around a goal.

Eduardo Galeano

The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

Aristotle

The greatest victory is over self.

Aristotle

Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity.

Aristotle

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Aristotle

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul.

Aristotle

Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit.

Ben Hogan

Every day that you don't practice is one day longer before you achieve greatness

Ben Jonson

It is a note Of upstart greatness to observe and watch For these poor trifles, which the noble mind Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

For he that once is good, is ever great.

Lena Headey

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

We're short of players, we don't know what's going on with the trades so it's not the most perfect situation for this team, but tonight it was truly a great win.

Romeo Miller

I love somebody that can hold a great conversation.

Richard Flanagan

You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing.

Robbie Robertson

The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.

Sam Altman

AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies.

Samantha Morton

On paper, it looks rough, but I had a great childhood.

Alexis Carrel

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Alexis de Tocqueville

A state of equality is perhaps less elevated, but it is more just; and its justice constitutes its greatness and beauty.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.