It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.
I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.
I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
I dated someone in the '90s who was really into Metallica, and I remember thinking at the time, 'That just sounds so heavy and hard.' But they have great ballads! Great ballads.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.
I believe that Bill Clinton will be remembered as one of our nation's great Presidents, and Senator Clinton as one of our nation's great public servants.
I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.
A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.
Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.
Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo.
Directors, like actors, get typecast. And because I've had great success with comedy and horror and TV shows, that's basically what I'm kind of offered.
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.
I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.
America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.
I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss.
