No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder. John Ruskin on great
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young. Anne Lamott on great
He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it. Thomas Fuller on great
Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? Henry Louis Gates on great
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds. Tallulah Bankhead on great
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. Willa Cather on great
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. Calvin Coolidge on great
I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection. Luther Burbank on great
What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. Andy Warhol on great
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere. Keith Richards on great
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration. Sri Aurobindo on great
It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people. Pamela Anderson on great
In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy. Stephen Hawking on great
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. Stanley Kubrick on great
We do not look in our great cities for our best morality. Jane Austen on great
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with. Woodrow Wilson on great
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley on great
What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. E. M. Forster on great
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state. Cate Blanchett on great
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. William Butler Yeats on great