Quotes of: Greatness Keyword

I’d make a great politician. I’d make it out of pig shit, so it wouldn’t be as foul as it is now.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I like glad-handing, because I hate handshakes that are sad. That’s why I’d make a great politician—because I wouldn’t shake hands with a lobbyist.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

William Penn would be a great pen name. But for love letters to manicured lawns, trees, and benches, the best name would be Nicholas Parks.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’m great at making love, at least for the first 20 bucks, and for about 30 minutes after that I just sort of lay there, trying to stretch out my investment.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I think that it is a great tragedy that a child can lose their mother, father, sister or brother, because you and I made a decision that getting loaded was more important than they are.

Tales of the Titmouse

There are lots of great ideas in my book, but as a cohesive unit, my book is only held together with glue at the spine.
 Or it would be, if it weren’t an ebook.

This Book Has No Title

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

This Book Has No Title

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Today I am an unemployed writer living as a recluse in the great Northwoods.

The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one— , the famous —and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

View from a Height

I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.

The Violence of Love

...to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humour, to make them visible so that can not be ravaged in the dark without great consequence.

The Vagina Monologues

Lust for possession and greed has ravaged the soul of humanity like a great cancer, metastasizing throughout society in the form of a nouveau post-human, consumer hedonism.

Voice of Reason

The male-dominated systems know they cannot maintain their current power structures if and when the woman is restored to her natural and powerful state as a great leader and co-creator.

Voice of Reason

But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no great consequence.

Wise Blood

No plaque reminds the passer-by of these glories, although there should be one; for those who invent biscuits bring great pleasure to many.

The World According to Bertie

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

Wild Ducks Flying Backward

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft