Quotes About Great

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

Our dad is recognized as being one of the great defensive coaches, probably arguably the best, in the history of the game. You can't say he's not in the top five, certainly.

To be a great motorbike racer, the most important thing is passion for the bike.

I like the 'Simpsons' pinball machines. Those are pretty great.

I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem.

I've been lucky enough to be part of some great ensembles in theater - I'd been doing theater since college.

At heart, this job is about continuing to make great theatre for the people of Sheffield - a city I've known and loved since childhood.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

I'm just attracted to good material and great characters and that can come in any form, whether it's television or film or a theatre piece.

I love the instantaneous nature of filming rather than the repetition of working in the theatre, but that maybe because I haven't had great experiences working in the theatre.

Places like the National Theatre or Sheffield, these great engines of theatre, make us cutting edge because they can be experimental. They can do plays that nobody else can afford to do in ways nobody else can afford to do.

If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.

Sometimes 'great acting' is just showing off - chewing up scenery and dialogue and other actors - the equivalent of a theatrical sugar rush.

The only real sadness, the only real failure, the only great tragedy in life, is not to become a saint."7 As

The great wooden doors screamed open on their pivots - yet not so loudly did they scream as the man who lay with one of the pivots turning in his eye as punishment for the evil he had done upon earth.

By example. By being genuine. Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.

There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.

This alleged Providence was the great subterfuge of maternal thoughtlessness.

Strong faith is more important than high intelligence. Moral force is the only force that can accomplish great things in the world

All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects…Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists.

INTERVIEWER: Do you do much rewriting? Wiper: I forget which of the great sonneteers said: "One line in the fourteen comes from the ceiling; the others have to be adjusted around it." Well, likewise there are passages in every novel whosefirst writing is pretty much the last. But it's the joint and cement, between those spontaneouspassages, that take a great deal of rewriting.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

There is nothing more fascinating than the fusion between power and mystery in our great, little treasure: the human brain.