A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

Moira Kelly | Great


You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

Billy Corgan | Great


Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Gilbert K. Chesterton | Great


Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

Steve Jobs | Great


You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

John Keats | Great


You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Henry Rollins | Great


You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Stevie Nicks | Great


You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

Dave Chappelle | Great


You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott | Great


You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

James Lane Allen | Great


You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

Susan Powter | Great


You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

Albert Einstein | Great


You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Alan Watts | Great


Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Colin Powell | Great


Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

Campbell Scott | Great


Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Anna Quindlen | Great


Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

E. O. Wilson | Great


With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer | Great


Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Charles Spurgeon | Great


Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Great


Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Wilma Rudolph | Great


Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Henry Rollins | Great


Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

Martha Gellhorn | Great


Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

Jim Rohn | Great


Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli | Great


Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

Lewis Carroll | Great


Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Saint Augustine | Great


Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Samuel Richardson | Great


Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Willa Cather | Great


Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

Niccolo Machiavelli | Great


When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Brian Eno | Great


When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Princess Diana | Great


When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

George Eliot | Great


When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

William Shakespeare | Great


When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Napoleon Bonaparte | Great


When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Honore de Balzac | Great


When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

Friedrich Nietzsche | Great


When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

Mitt Romney | Great


When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

Elisha Cuthbert | Great


When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

Richard Dawkins | Great


When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Christopher Hitchens | Great


When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Robert Louis Stevenson | Great


When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

George Eliot | Great


When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon | Great


When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Pat Riley | Great


When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Calvin Coolidge | Great


What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Henry Ford | Great


What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Andy Warhol | Great


Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Charles Dickens | Great


What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Aldous Huxley | Great


What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Great


What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Pablo Picasso | Great


What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

E. M. Forster | Great


What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Alexis de Tocqueville | Great


What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Mehmet Oz | Great


What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

William Glasser | Great


What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Robert H. Schuller | Great


What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie | Great


We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

Billy Graham | Great


Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Victor Hugo | Great


Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

Larry Hagman | Great


Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

Plato | Great


Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus | Great


We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Dick Gregory | Great


We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Steve Jobs | Great


We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

Matthew Modine | Great


We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Great


We need a great president.

Donald Trump | Great


We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Richard M. Nixon | Great


We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke | Great


We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Great


We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Henry David Thoreau | Great


We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

Aesop | Great


We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen | Great


We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Franklin D. Roosevelt | Great


We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.

Pope Paul VI | Great


We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Rabindranath Tagore | Great


We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Louis D. Brandeis | Great


We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Great


We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

Zachary Quinto | Great


We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

George Washington | Great


We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Lee Iacocca | Great


We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Charles R. Swindoll | Great


We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

John W. Gardner | Great


We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Mignon McLaughlin | Great


Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Bette Davis | Great


Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

Cher | Great


Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Helen Keller | Great


Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Peace Pilgrim | Great


Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Orison Swett Marden | Great


Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Oprah Winfrey | Great


Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy | Great


Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Friedrich Nietzsche | Great


Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Tom Hanks | Great


Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

Jean Rostand | Great


Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson | Great


Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Soren Kierkegaard | Great


Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Jim Capaldi | Great


Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Eleanor Roosevelt | Great


Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Great


To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

Fred Durst | Great


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