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Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
- Great War
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown. Five millions, or eight? We ourselves know not.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a somewhat reclusive quality myself, and actually what's great about New York is that it pushes you to be social because the streets are full of people.
- Kiss
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the preponderant opinion clearly was that St. Louis could be a great football city if it had a team of its own that they could really root for.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.
- Three
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.
- Nov 07, 2020
To me, writing is a considered act. It's something which is a great labor of thought and consideration.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I've known who've done great things of that type - you know, building hospitals, running schools - are very humble people. They give their lives to the project.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did not throw out my education lightly, but what I was being taught was of no use in explaining what I saw around me. It was the Great Depression.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020