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Quotes About Great

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
~ Douglas Adams
Things had certainly come down a long way since the great days of Faust and Mephistopheles, when a man could gain all the knowledge of the universe, achieve all the ambitions of his mind and all the pleasures of the flesh for the price of his soul.
~ Douglas Adams
Hi there! This is Eddie, your shipboard computer, and I'm feeling just great, guys, and I know I'm just going to get a bundle of kicks out of any program you care to run through me.
~ Douglas Adams
There is a great deal of wickedness in village life. I hope you dear young people will never realize how very wicked the world is.
~ Agatha Christie
Good morning, mademoiselle. Yes, it is as you say. You now behold a detective—a great detective, I may say—in the act of detecting!
~ Agatha Christie
but it is one of the great consolations in nature that a man, however unattractive, will find that he is attractive—to some woman.
~ Agatha Christie
We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.
~ Al Jarreau
My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa.
~ Alan Cumming
At the heart of all great movements is a recovery of a simple Christology (essential conceptions of who Jesus is and what he does), yet one that accurately reflects the Jesus of New Testament faith—they are in a very literal sense Jesus movements.
~ Alan Hirsch
Good afternoon, Detective. This is Dawn from Chief Ehrlich's office. Are you available to talk to the Chief?" "I'm great at multitasking, Dawn. I'm good to talk and piss him off at the same time.
~ Alan Russell
'Party Down' was one of the most magical, special experiences of my professional career. Also special in my personal life, too. I made really good friends, and I had just a great time, and it was a great part.
~ Ken Marino
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
~ Harold Ramis
I'm delighted to be joining City. It didn't take much persuasion from Mark Hughes; they are heading in the direction I want to go. There is great potential here.
~ Gareth Barry
Even though Peter Criss is a pretty simple player, he played with great feel and made the music get up and go.
~ Vinnie Paul
Peter Jackson is a wonderful man. He's a great director. He's found his niche in life.
~ Luke Evans
I love everything about Boston. The women are phenomenal, they're all dirty. It's just a really great place to do comedy.
~ Jim Norton
I've done a couple of films in Philadelphia, and it's a great, great town.
~ Toni Collette
Philly has that tradition of great basketball.
~ Jrue Holiday
If somebody says to you, 'MTV,' you think of Mick Jagger on a phone screaming at that phone: 'I want my MTV.' That, to me, was always the epitome of great advertising.
~ George Lois
I gravitate toward contemporary art. I love great paintings, sculpture, photography, some video art.
~ David Furnish
I discovered my physicality, I discovered running, and endorphins, and the sort of amazing way that people are meant to move. And that's what's great about 'Hanna,' because she moves. She's human and she embodies all of that.
~ Esme Creed-Miles
It just so happens that my oldest and best friend is Bob James, the Grammy-winning great jazz pianist!
~ Jack O'Brien
I still love a great pilot as much as I did the day I started at NBC.
~ Kevin Reilly
I remember that when I was in my 30s, a hot age for an actress, lots of offers were coming in, but nothing was great, and I didn't work for 18 months. It was at a really fruitful age, and I wanted to work. There was nothing coming down the pipeline that I thought was good - and then I got 'The Piano.'
~ Holly Hunter