Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.

Ronald D. Moore

If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

Roman Polanski

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

Simon Cowell

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

Samuel P. Huntington

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.

Steven Pinker

Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'

Salman Rushdie

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

Stephen Spender

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Thomas Carlyle

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Thomas Carlyle

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Thomas Hobbes

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners.

Tracy Hickman

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

Tom Rath

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Thornton Wilder

Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.

Warren Bennis

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

Wernher von Braun

The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.

Walter Pater

The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

William Shatner

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Will Self

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

Zane Grey

That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

Aphra Behn