In the past, a great library was the result of librarians functioning as guardians of culture, tending and caring, selecting and recommending works that maintained and nurtured a cultural heritage.
There will be a Skype movie soon... someone will crack the code, and it will be great. Then, there'll be 30 Skype movies, and we'll be like, 'Oh, that's boring.'
New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.
I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.
'21 Jump Street' is great. I just made that, and produced it and was a writer on it. It's starring myself and Channing Tatum, and maybe some surprise guests.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
When I was a schoolkid, I went to Castleton quite a few times. We'd be there studying rocks, going down these big hills. It was a great place!
I'm not as concerned about me. What's happened to me has been great. I got five great kids. Seventeen grandchildren.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
