I'm a fan of great storytelling.
I have really great friends.
Working is a great distraction technique.
To be great is to be misunderstood.
I've swam with great white sharks.
There are lots of moments that are great for an actress.
Admiration is great, but there is a line not to cross.
The harmonica is a great instrument.
He was a great thundering paradox of a man.
Good is the enemy of great.
Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
The only greatness for man is immortality.
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
I have been dwelling upon downtowns. This is not because mixtures of primary uses are unneeded elsewhere in cities. On the contrary they are needed, and the success of mixtures downtown (on in the most intensive portions of cities, whatever they are ...
The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight ...
He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know ...
So I forced myself to step out of my comfort zone and go out and connect with people. I realised that no one knew me here. I could become whoever I wanted to be for these people, and that became my courage.
The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.
Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there were, it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping it's life away. To hell with that," he said, "shake th...
He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were dif...