A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.
Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
Inspiration is the seed of imagination, where great ideas bloom
Fearing failure is fearing life. Failure is a great way to learn from life.
All great art is a form of complaint
Adenoid Hynkel: Schultz, why have you forsaken me?
Colin: I can't see a bloody thing!
The great idea is the one that is either saleable or is worthy of imitation.
Behind every great man stands a surprised woman.
America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Great leaders passed away, politicians made their way.
I see great things in baseball.
There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium number of copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a wri...
When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was taking a stab at greatness, that is, if greatness is simply another word for doing something different from what you were already doing-...
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own idea of greatness is illusory, and if we pay too much attention to it we will be lured out of the peace and stabil...
Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits) that the great policies of world history, "the wheels of the world", are often turned not by the Lords and Governors, even gods,...
They preferred writing about great men to writing about great hills; but they sat on the great hills to write it. They gave out much less about Nature, but they drank in, perhaps, much more. They painted the white robes of their holy virgins with the...
As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.
It's better not to work than to work in something you don't want to be working in.
And I don't like to work. I only like working when I'm working.
