Great Man Once Said Quotes

#1. Write what's up there." Sister Ignatius pointed at her temple. "As a great man once said, this is a secret garden. We've all got one of those."
"Jesus?"
"No, Bruce Springsteen.

Cecelia Ahern

#2. Every day is a fresh start; don't measure yourself by yesterday's troubles.

Dagny Scott Barrios

#3. Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

Harry Hamlin

#4. If we do not begin to practice the muscles of having a possessive investment in each other's oppressions, then we are in some serious trouble.

Junot Diaz

#5. The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.

Jack Canfield

#6. When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, 'But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty.' I told her that was just the point
mine wouldn't be.

Walt Disney Company

#7. I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

Jello Biafra

#8. You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth. But that's all.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground

Rich Mullins

#10. Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. There has not been a conscious view of re-energising manufacturing. So, in some form, someone has to wave the Union Jack in the area of manufacturing.

Ratan Tata

#12. A man had said that to her once at the stage door. She'd been leaving after a theatre session, buzzing still with the high of performance, and he'd stopped her to say how much he'd enjoyed it. "You've a great talent for observation," he'd said. "Ears, eyes, and heart, all at once.

Kate Morton

#13. There is nothing worse than loving someone when they don't love you back, especially when you have only yourself to blame for it.

Samantha Towle

#14. I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

Richard Bode

#15. If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.

David Suzuki

#16. I've never had an original thought in my lifeand there's tons of people on the internet happy to tell me just that.

Shepard Fairey

#17. Strange, strange are the dynamics of oil and the ways of oilmen.

Thomas Pynchon

#18. I never knew a sorrow that an hour of reading could not assuage, a great man had once said. Let's put it to the test.

Anna Gavalda