Read the great books, gentlemen,” Mr. Monte said one day. “Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There’s not enough time.
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual.
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.
one great irony about ignorance it that one may do wrong things greatly and great things wrongly; knowingly or unknowingly
This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the o...
This is what I believe to be the progress of a writer. You write 10 things, of which one of them will be great. You then write 11 things, of which two of them will be great. Then you write 12 things, of which four of them will be great. Then you writ...
No great television show has ever rested on just one person. They're all about great ensembles and storytelling.
One of the great things and one of the horrible things about the American character is this extraordinary optimism and arrogance that everything will continue to be great and keep looking up.
To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.
If there is nothing to lose but something to gain by trying, by all means one should keep trying.
That's one of the great things about Thanksgiving: Football's on!
Great wine works wonders and is itself one
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a gr...
was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use th...
...no one is born a great cook, one learns by doing.
We must be conscious of this; one day, the life we have, will be gone.
Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
NO ONE IS BORN GREAT BUT WHAT MAKES ONE GREAT IS HIS DREAMS AND THE DESIRE TO CONVERT THESE DREAMS INTO REALITY
