Quotes of: Great-writer Keyword

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.

George Lopez

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

One of the great things about being gay and out is that the papers couldn't care less about your love life.

Graham Norton

I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.

Gina Philips

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

Gordon Ramsay

One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.

Harsha Bhogle

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

Honore de Balzac

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Helen Keller

I think someone like Carmen Electra would be great in 'Peepshow.' Really, though, I think anyone who can sing and dance would be great.

Holly Madison

I like to read and dream and create music that is based on the imagery of text. If you have the combination of a great book and a great filmmaker, what could be better for the composer?

Howard Shore

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

Isabel Allende

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Jon Anderson

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Jean Baudrillard

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

John Burroughs

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

Josephine de La Baume

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

Julian Barnes

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

Jim Costa

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

James Gray

The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.

Jami Gertz