Great Quotes

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

I have to take the positives from 2012 and the negatives as well because you learn more than you do from the positives. It has been a great season last year, a lot of learning, and now it's another approach. The way I will approach this year is totally different, so we are ready to fight for it.

No great thing is created suddenly.

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.