It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.
I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.
When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.
It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.
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.
The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.
Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
I built a studio in L.A. for me and my brother to just write every single day. And it's been great, man.
The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.
You have to be equal at both - great at football and great at dedicating yourself to the academics at Notre Dame. It's hard. There are no rooty-toot classes for athletes in South Bend.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
Elizabeth I was my favourite monarch though, what an inspiration, she did great things for women.
I certainly have the feeling that I'm the same person even though I've changed a great deal.
