- Borrowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
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
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you agree with a critic, you admire him or her. If you disagree, you despise them. We all feel a great need to be confirmed in our opinions.
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.
- Headlong
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a great candidate for why arts funding shouldn't be cut, because I had no experience other than what was at school, I'm from a working-class town, there were no theaters, and the cinema closed when I was a kid. Anything that gave me a voice or a way to express myself I went running headlong toward.
- Fat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is unhealthy to live in an environment where every aspect of our culture requires a great sort, where creative talents are for some but not for all, and where performing for the president of the United States becomes a point of regular and significant controversy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All too often, when people think about art in the U.K., they think London. There's some really great work being produced outside of the capital city and I think it is important to stop and acknowledge that.
- Feet
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got a great family, great career, great friends, and a lot of passions, which make my life interesting and fulfilling every day.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020