Top 100 Quotes About Great Ones
#1. People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.
Eoin Colfer
#3. Once I really maximize my potential-I don't know when that'll be, a year from now, three or four years from now-I think I can be one of the great ones.
Julius Peppers
#4. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
Eric S. Raymond
#5. I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Jason Reitman
#6. Time never stops for the great ones
Al Davis
#7. When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
Lindsay Lohan
#8. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#9. There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#10. The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.
Laozi
#11. Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.
Elizabeth Wordsworth
#12. Those that weather the storm are the great ones.
DJ Khaled
#13. Light griefs are loquacious. Great ones are dumb.
Seneca.
#14. Simple joys are the great ones. Pleasure is not complicated.
Ethan Hawke
#15. I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s) but I don't think London has ever been more culturally and sartorially rich as it is now.
Patrick Grant
#16. Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.
Ernest Hemingway,
#17. Read the great books, gentlemen," Mr. Monte said one day. "Just the great ones. Ignore the others. There's not enough time.
Pat Conroy
#18. I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.
Ben Jonson
#19. Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles
#20. The gods did not desire flawless souls, but great ones. I think that very darkness is where the greatness grows from, as flowers from the soil. I am not sure, in fact, if greatness can bloom without it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#21. Everybody in the NBA is good. And then you have the really good ones and the great ones.
Kyrie Irving
#22. Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
James Bay
#23. The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.
Guy Finley
#24. I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.
Wes Anderson
#25. As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
Noel Gallagher
#26. Highest love of God is not intellectual, it is spiritual. God is spirit and only the spirit of man can know Him really. In the deep spirit of a man, the fire must glow, or his love is not the true love of God. The great ones of the kingdom have been those who loved God more than others did.
A.W. Tozer
#27. A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
Roald Dahl
#28. The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
Twyla Tharp
#29. Plain white T-shirts do it for me every time. You can spend anything from £3 to £50 on a T-shirt, but I've bought some great ones from H&M, as well as shelling out on Duffer Of St George and a Polish label I discovered while filming 'Robin Hood' in Hungary called Scotch And Soda.
Jonas Armstrong
#30. On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#31. Everyone wants to do what the great ones do; but very few are willing to do what they did to become great
Jon Gordon
#32. Absence diminishes minor passions and inflames great ones, as the wind douses a candle and fans a fire. La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680 OBSERVANCE
Robert Greene
#33. I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.
Jason Gann
#34. Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#35. Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#37. And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Arthur Bryant
#38. A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.
Lev Grossman
#39. I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.
Tom Felton
#40. I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
Alicia Keys
#41. But little deaths have to be died just as great ones do. Every reminder that aroused a longing had to be offered up.
Elisabeth Elliot
#42. We've seen it over and over throughout history, it isn't a conspiracy theory anymore that the truly great ones get taken out. That's a trend, but when will people realize that after new world order, worldwide communism will take place.
Auliq Ice
#43. Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#44. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#45. Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer ... Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.
Louis De Montfort
#46. All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once.
Raul Lopez
#47. The difference between dreamers and great ones is that the great ones can always perceive beyond their dark clouds of despair and struggles to see the rainbow of hope in their lives.
Timothy Pina
#48. Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#50. I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
Zayn Malik
#51. Nations, like individuals, have been always disposed from interest or vanity to forget their day of small things; like individuals, too, they have always been unwilling to isolate their origins from the great ones who have gone before.
Hutcheson Macaulay Posnett
#52. I've always had good relationships with directors. I'm one of those people where, if there's a good idea coming from the sound guy, I'll take it. Filmmaking is a collaborative effort, whether it's a first-time director or it's Mike Nichols. I think that's the standard that the great ones set.
Patrick Wilson
#53. Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming.
Steve Siebold
#54. Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
Cab Calloway
#57. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones.
Holly Black
#58. Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
Luc De Clapiers
#59. Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.
Algernon Sidney
#60. To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better - to improve on the ideas of others.
Scott Douglas
#62. Small crimes always precedes great ones.
Jean Racine
#63. There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones.
Michael Jackson
#64. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?
Swami Vivekananda
#65. Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust
#66. The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal
#67. A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives or tedious acquaintances because a familiarity engendered in the cradle had stripped them of all glamour in his eyes.
Marcel Proust
#68. The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.
Pele
#69. If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#70. It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality.
Eugene Ionesco
#71. I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard.
Zoe Bell
#72. Gone to serve the Great Ones, in the Null. No death, no light, no rest.
Stephen King
#73. There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Clifton Fadiman
#74. The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.
Robbie Robertson
#75. It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.
Henri Poincare
#76. I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.
Patti Page
#77. The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.
Paul Di Filippo
#78. Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.
Joe Klein
#79. Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We.
Phil Jackson
#81. How many minds
almost all the great ones
were formed in secrecy and solitude!
Matthew Arnold
#82. And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#83. For when a man's spirit has been thoroughly crushed, he may be peevish at small offenses, but never resentful of great ones.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#84. An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
Samuel Richardson
#85. A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed.
Alexandre Dumas
#86. A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them the earth turned, singing.
Sheri S. Tepper
#87. Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the
little ones: I can compare our rich misers to
nothing so fitly as to a whale; a' plays and
tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at
last devours them all at a mouthful:
William Shakespeare
#88. There are a lot of photographers who have influenced me; some of the great ones, like Herb Ritts, Helmut Newton, and [Alfred] Stieglitz. I draw from all of them. You're supposed to steal from the good ones.
Leonard Nimoy
#89. If your courage holds in the small battles, it will hold in the great ones.
Cliff Graham
#90. Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
Lord Chesterfield
#91. Their incredible determination creates the need for nonlinear thinking, combined with boundless energy. Champions also earn money in nonlinear ways. While the masses essentially trade their time for money, the great ones realize this is probably the worst way to acquire wealth. Using
Steve Siebold
#92. For it must be noted, that men must either be caressed or else annihilated; they will revenge themselves for small injuries, but cannot do so for great ones; the injury therefore that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#93. Great is a great one whose great ones are great
John Stein
#94. Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.
Robert Krulwich
#95. The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.
William Hazlitt
#96. When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones.
Lilias Trotter
#98. All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
Cathy Guisewite
#99. a client is going to remember that one great idea a consultant proposes far more than the not-so-great ones. And
Patrick Lencioni
#100. I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.
Jerry Weintraub
