Quotes of: Great-ones Keyword

I would rather have a small part in a really great movie than a big one in one that I'm not too psyched about.

Kristen Wiig

Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.

Patti Davis

One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.

Stephen Kinzer

Women are on a rise and a great woman will lead this country and make a real change one day.

Alcurtis Turner

Do you know why I believe in the novel? It’s a democratic shout. Anybody can write a great novel, one great novel, almost any amateur off the street. I believe this, George. Some nameless drudge, some desperado with barely a nurtured dream can sit ...

Mao II

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

Steve Harvey

It gives one hope, this great strength of Africa.

Stephen Lewis

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Voltaire

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then...

P. J. O'Rourke

If you play the same club every week of every month, it's kind of boring. It's great that you can play one night in Brazil and one night in Japan, one night in Europe, and see the world. It's amazing what you see if you travel around the world.

Tiesto

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

Politics and the English Language

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

I don't stress about things I can't change, so if I have a day when I don't look great, I don't look in the mirror! I try to fit in one session of Bikram yoga and one run a week and, if I can, one swim, but that's pushing it.

Donna Air

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They...

Robert Klein

A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Richard Le Gallienne

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

Alex Shoumatoff

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Jean Giraudoux

No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.

Jean Harlow

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

John Major

One of my great passions is the collection of historical trivia.

Lynn Abbey