Famous Quotes: Great

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation.
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Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life.
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When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change?
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I've had cameos on some cool shows.
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If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now.
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What we want is a lasting peace. We will oppose soft measures which invite the breaking of the peace.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
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I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.
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There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
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Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.
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I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.
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I also take pleasure in the so-called negative power in Grotjahn's work. That is, I love his paintings for what they are not. Unlike much art of the past decade, Grotjahn isn't simply working from a prescribed checklist of academically acceptable, curator-approved 'isms' and twists.
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No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation.
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