Quotes of: Great-things Keyword

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

Margot Fonteyn

The great thing as an actor is that I don't know what my agent is going to call me with next.

Matthew Lewis

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique.

Paul Coffey

The great thing about being a novelist is that you organize your own day.

Sophie Kinsella

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

Stacy Keach

People can do more than they ever believe they can do. Physically, mentally, academically. You have to be pushed. It hurts. But it's worth it, and it's a great thing.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.

Steve Tisch

One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great.

Alicia Silverstone

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Robert Benchley

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.

Wallace Stevens

He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even b...

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Every Inch of the Way is a great page turning adventure which is as close as you can get, without actually saddling up and pedalling yourself into the unknown. It takes real magic to turn a great adventure, into a great book. For one thing, most peop...

Love

I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing ...

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Oh, don't go on like that!" cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. "Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come today. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!" Alice could not help la...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

Only great men may have great faults.

French

We are capable of greatness.

Think Great: Be Great: Beautiful Quotes

Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring human beings into the only divinity there is.

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

The shovel is bigger than the spoon, but it can never ever do the work the spoon does. They both look similar; they both have different sizes but one more thing not to forget is that "they are important in their own roles"! Each is unique! You are un...

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Don't rush in order to have things done early. Be prepared before you set off. That's the rule. However, this does not mean that you keep delaying the time for beginning. You must begin by all means! Go, get prepared!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Nine times out of 10, the most charming thing to say in any given situation will be the exact opposite of what one really feels.

Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush

Like most complicated things where it's easy to get derailed, their marriage was successful because they mastered the basics. From that mastery they could weather anything.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage