What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.
The purpose of life is to be happy by being useful to others. Always have the inborn sense of wonder and enjoy the wonderful universe every moment with great love and great affection.
Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.
The Americans’ great wealth (and their great love for it) makes it precisely the appropriate metaphor. Supply and Demand as a principle has permeated their minds. As a practice, it stains all the way down to their souls.
was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.
A great leader fights with great adversity, suffers greatly, but courageously, and never forget to help others is his ultimate duty.
I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.
Santa: Do you know why I only eat roots? Jep Gambardella: No, why? Santa: Because roots are important.
Field Marshal Herring: We've just discovered the most wonderful, the most marvelous poisinous gas. It will kill everybody.
Melvin B. Tolson: I am here to help you to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind.
Melvin B. Tolson: We'll be one of the first Negro colleges to ever debate a white college. If we beat them, we beat the best.
Hilts: I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over.
Ashley-Pitt: [watching Hilts be brought back into camp] I didn't think he'd get caught so soon. Bartlett: He wasn't caught.
Danny: Oh, Hendley. I need a pick. Big, heavy one. Hendley: Only one? Danny: Two would be better.
Bartlett: What about the goon towers? Hilts: That's a chance you're gonna have to take. But they're gonna be watching the compound, not the woods.
Stratwitch: I will not take action against you, now. This is the first day here and there has been much stupidity and carelessness... on both sides!
Herr Kuhn: [to Bartlett] Squadron Leader Bartlett, if you escape again, and are captured, you will be SHOT! Herr Kuhn: [to Von Luger] Heil Hitler!
Carol Connelly: [Melvin enters the restaurant in his suit] You look so se-... um, you look great. You look great.
Helen: Have a great day, honey. Help customers, climb ladders... Bob: Bring bacon. Helen: All that jazz.
Diane Court: Nobody thinks it will work, do they? Lloyd Dobler: No. You just described every great success story.
Lester Burnham: [narrating] It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
