Top 100 Great It Quotes
#1. Being famous is great, it's not like bad or horrible or anything.
Dave Chappelle
#2. I'm also inspired by anything that I consider great. It makes me want to raise my game too - Hitchcock movies, Hopper paintings, Springsteen concerts.
Harlan Coben
#3. Don't try to push [fear] away,' he said. 'If you fight it, you make it stronger. You gotta great it politely, like an unwanted cousin. You can't make it leave you alone, but you can do what you have to do, in spite of it.
Lian Tanner
#4. I was lucky enough to get to perform on stage in front of 20 million people on TV, and 150 thousand in concerts. For 15 minutes I got to be a rock star, the 15 minutes is great! It turns into Spinal Tap after 20 minutes.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#5. We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
Linus Torvalds
#6. Just because people say something's great, it doesn't mean you have to agree, not if you don't actually enjoy it.
Abby McDonald
#7. Life is great. It is a tremendous gift I look forward to unwrapping everyday.
Rashida Costa
#8. This was wrong. Tony didn't want to have feelings. The sex was great. It was okay to want her, dominate her, and control her. It was not okay to want to be with her, please her, and love her. Yet every one of his senses desired Claire.
Aleatha Romig
#9. There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.
Barbara Coloroso
#10. Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.
Keenen Ivory Wayans
#11. Maybe they'll start making serialized movies. I watched the first couple seasons of '24' and it's really fun. I bought the DVD and watched it over a month or so and it's great. It's like reading a novel. It has a lot of possibilities that are more difficult to accomplish with a film.
Jeremy Sisto
#13. I swear I begin to see the meaning of these things. It is not the earth, it is not America, who is so great, it is I who am great or to be great ...
Walt Whitman
#14. When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.
Haruki Murakami
#15. If the show is great, it doesn't matter who wrote it. It doesn't matter who takes charge when you're filming it. It just matters if it works or not.
Chris Jericho
#16. I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It's great. It's the book of that campaign. It brought all the memories back of everything with Clinton and Obama, and Sarah Palin and McCain, and choosing her, and John Edwards. It was an interesting book.
Annette Bening
#17. We couldn't believe our luck, and for a little while it felt like we were on some big train rolling down a hill, and all we cared about was how great it felt to be going fast.
Meg Rosoff
#18. I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.
Tom Perrotta
#19. I get people stopping me on the street like twenty times a day, telling me how great it makes them feel and how it just helps them to go about their day and rebuild their lives. It means a tremendous amount.
Drew Brees
#20. Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.
John Marin
#21. Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure.
Samael Aun Weor
#22. Having all eyes on me at all times is hard to deal with, but it's great. It feels like you've already accomplished something. It's already predetermined that you're going to do well.
Shaun White
#23. Everyone has a hole inside themselves. They don't know they had it until they have kids, and then that hole fills up. And it's so great; it's just God's greatest gift to us.
Chuck Schumer
#24. I can't tell you how great it is to get away with a girlfriend for four days shopping in Paris. Now that's what I call a vacation.
Jessica Alba
#25. When advertising is great, it's transcendent. It's art.
Jared Leto
#26. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
Steve Jobs
#27. All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self.
Mark Victor Hansen
#28. How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements ... and into dreams that we can make come true.
Fred Rogers
#29. To me, growing old is great. It's the very best thing - considering the alternative.
Michael Caine
#30. Acting is great. It's so much fun. It's a job where you literally get to do something that's a great experience, and then you try a new experience, and you take things from all of it.
James Wolk
#31. I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
Christopher Walken
#32. Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives.
Pandurang Shastri Athavale
#33. I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious.
Rita Rudner
#34. It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
Benito Mussolini
#35. Let your work speak for itself:
If poor, it will remain silent.
If average, it will whisper.
If good, it will talk.
If great, it will shout.
If genius, it will sing.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#36. Baltimore never changes much. People aren't impressed by anything. It's great; it's not a trendy town.
John Waters
#37. The flowers ... remember.
I suddenly understood. This was Ash's memory of Ariella, perfect, happy and full of life, a yearning so great it was given form, if only for a moment.
Julie Kagawa
#38. I'm Vane Weston: The Last Westerly
Great- it sounds like something out of an anime cartoon.
Shannon Messenger
#39. The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.
Diane Kruger
#40. Once you realise how great it is to love someone, and be loved equally or higher. Life will never be the same.
Sarvesh Jain
#41. Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk.
John Leguizamo
#42. I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a parent, there has to be something inside you that says, 'I want a family.' I don't feel that sense of urgency.
George Clooney
#43. People ask 'How does doing a film compare to doing an ad?' Well, when you're doing a commercial you don't have to sell tickets. You have a captured audience. Which is actually completely rare and great; it gives you a lot of freedom. When you make a film, you have to do advertisements for the film.
Mike Mills
#44. If Canada were really that great, it would be a state.
Daniel Tosh
#45. The early versions of 'Shell's Wonderful World of Golf' were great. It's sort of interesting: as it progressed, it became worse and worse, but the early versions were really fantastic with Jimmy Demaret and Gene Sarazen. They were classics.
Donald Trump
#46. The pleasure of gratifying whim is very great. It is known only by those who are whimsical.
James Boswell
#47. Cheesecake Factory is great. It should have Michelin stars.
Blake Lively
#48. I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.
Joanne Harris
#49. The weight of the lie was so great it almost didn't escape my lips and barely made it to her ears
V.C. Andrews
#50. imagined how great it would feel to jump into the water to cool off. Sure, she could just go inside the main cabin and freeze in the air conditioning. But
Kaira Rouda
#51. 2,000 years ago one man got nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be if everyone was nice to each other for a change.
Douglas Adams
#52. All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.
Stephanie Lennox
#54. Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
Alexandra David-Neel
#55. I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.
Emilia Fox
#56. Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.
Danny Bonaduce
#57. I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American.
Andy Warhol
#58. Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is, when by patience it approveth what it works.
Seneca The Younger
#59. Humility does not disturb or disquiet or agitate, however great it may be; it comes with peace, delight, and calm ... The pain of genuine humility doesn't agitate or afflict the soul; rather, this humility expands it and enables it to serve God more.
Teresa Of Avila
#60. You cannot imagine how great it is to step out on the stage with thousands of screaming fans loving you.
Eddie Cibrian
#61. One rule is this: that if the risk of a transaction is very great it should not be considered at all, no matter what profit it offers if it is successful.
Rex Stout
#62. It is not the genius at the top giving directions that makes people great. It is great people that make the guy at the top look like a genius.
Simon Sinek
#63. When you give a happy couple the opportunity to talk about what makes marriage great, it's like a water spigot you can't quite turn off.
Fawn Weaver
#64. Boxing changed my life. It's like a drug; you can't believe how great it is! Let me tell you something, you hit somebody on the chin, the guy goes down, the crowd roars ... Wow! You really feel something!
Tony Danza
#65. As a kid, I'd watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows. Now I turn on MTV and, along the bottom of the screen, it often reads, 'Coming next ... Pixie Lott.' That's so strange that I can't even begin to make sense of it.
Pixie Lott
#66. But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?
Aminatta Forna
#67. I have a deposition Monday, I have a career - !" "You haven't anymore. What you have is here, in Rhadaz. I won't apologize," Merrida said flatly. "If your loss is great, it would be an impertinence.
Ru Emerson
#68. Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
Wendy Kopp
#69. The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
Louis I. Kahn
#70. Marriage is great. It'll calm you down - that and neutering.
Kevin Nealon
#71. When people ask me what makes movies great, it's the material.
Harvey Weinstein
#72. Theatre's great. It's such an act of faith. It's a wonderful art form where you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours. It's a lovely art form because the actors and the audience are alive and in the room at the same time together. That's why I love the theatre.
Israel Horovitz
#73. When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is.
Judy Davis
#74. I never was Carrie Bradshaw, but imagine how great it was to be told, "You are obligated to kiss all these men, to dress like that, and to carry on like that!" They were great guys, too.
Sarah Jessica Parker
#75. God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best.
Winston Churchill
#76. I do not see how it's possible to have a "friends with benefits" lifestyle, because if the sex is great, it's going to naturally expand into a more meaningful relationship. Otherwise, it's just a booty call.
Jenna Elfman
#77. I thought how great it would be if we could trade in Fudge for a nice cocker spaniel.
Judy Blume
#78. There is no destiny so great it cannot be altered, Chase Williams. Stone can be broken, parchment can be burned, and words can be lost. The past is all that is constant.
M.R. Merrick
#79. From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.
Marcus Aurelius
#80. In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#81. They're people who probably imagine that they would have had a better time in the past. I wouldn't imagine you'd encounter a lot of black people saying 'Oh, the '50s, that was when America was great.' It's very dangerous because the past was imperfect, and you can't go back anyway.
Christine Jennings
#82. Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
Edwin Markham
#83. I've never had to get a job as a waiter or anything. I've always been able to support myself in 'the biz.' Which is great. It's really fantastic to be able to say that, because I know it's hard to do.
Paul Feig
#84. Canada is great. It's one of the most beautiful cities and I'm definitely going to miss it a lot.
Taylor Lautner
#85. It was so wonderful! Now it felt as if my brain was just going to melt away. I wanted to stay like that forever, to stay in his arms for the rest of my life. That's how great it was.
Haruki Murakami
#86. Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. I'm not very well known. However, the more well known you get, the more people are going to have expectations of you. Although that's great, it also imposes certain pressures.
Sally Hawkins
#88. I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.
MaryJanice Davidson
#89. No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.
Wynton Marsalis
#90. It's something to be Great, It's nothing to be Famous
Wale
#91. It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.
Catherine Gilbert Murdock
#92. When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And it's great. It's amazing. I'm just lucky.
Michael Welch
#93. I'm so blessed to have been a working actor. If they still would like to make me a superstar, I'm available, but so far, being a working actor has been great. It's taken me everywhere.
Patrick Fabian
#94. I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
Natalie Cole
#95. It was not Muslims that had made Islam great; it was Islam that had made the Muslims great.
Muhammad Asad
#96. No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
#97. If you don't have a camera, the best thing you can do is describe how great it looked.
Jay Maisel
#98. I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
Stevie Ray Vaughan
#99. Both my sisters and I were in Stage Door plays, and we did that together, just in, like, little small plays together. And we did that, and it was really fun, and we kinda did commercials, and it kinda took off from there. It was great; it's what I love.
Joey King
#100. Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
King Hussein I
