Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Luc de Clapiers

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Lytton Strachey

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Mel Brooks

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

Michael Bond

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

Mohsin Hamid

I'm not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at is a great opportunity for ideas.

Martha Stewart

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Neil Jordan

We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah.

Osama bin Laden

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Orison Swett Marden

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Oscar Wilde

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Pierre Beaumarchais

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

Paul Rudd

I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.

Rachel Dratch

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'

Randy Pausch

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

A. S. Byatt

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Samuel Johnson

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Sinclair Lewis

Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Susan Minot

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie