Great Thing Quotes

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.
Michael Mandelbaum

Great, Failure, Live

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
Beatrice Wood

Life, Great, India

The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.
John C. McGinley

Great, Learning, Person

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.
Emma Donoghue

Life, Great, Someone

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.
Paul Krugman

Great, Future, Hands

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
Patricia Heaton

Great, Cool, Husband

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.
Alexander Wang

Great, Find, Young

That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Jupiter Hammon

Great, War, Judge

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
Oscar de la Renta

Great, Forward, Fashion

That's the great thing about New York, there's always something to do.
Jessica Szohr

The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
Jim Wallis

Great, Social, Everybody

Don may yawn at the idea, which he often does, but the great thing about Don, he has confidence in me and Mike and Ed and Leslie and Steve, that we're not going go out and do stories that will put people to sleep.
Morley Safer

Great, Sleep, Confidence

You never know who will win and I think that is the great thing about this league (as a player) because it gives you a lot of hope that this could be your year.
Michael Strahan

Great, Hope, Win

The great thing about this town hall format is that it allows us to hear what's on the minds of Americans. Tonight, it was clear - voters have quite a few questions about the direction in which the current administration is headed.
Janet Napolitano

Great, Minds, Few

I think we'll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.
Jay Roach

Great, Keep, Pushing

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.
Nicholson Baker

Great, Person, Talk

The great thing about our system of democracy is when they call you for jury duty, you have to come... It's an honor and a privilege. I was called and I've got to be here.
Antonio Villaraigosa

Great, Democracy, Here

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
Andy Taylor

Music, Great, Find

That's the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
Bruce Boxleitner

Great, Try, Actor

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.
Steven Soderbergh

Change, Time, Great

My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
Nikki Reed

Life, Great, Amazing

Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
Debi Mazar

Great, Actor, York

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
Ed Miliband

Faith, Great, Whatever

The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
Sparky Anderson

Good, Great, Baseball

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
James Young

Change, Time, Great

After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices.
Brittany Snow

Great, Movies, Character

The great thing about cake is it doesn't feel like work. You forget about work. Kids, adults, they all get the same look in their eye when they're decorating cakes... That's the magic right there.
Duff Goldman

Work, Great, Forget

It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
Karel Capek

Great, Human, Million

The great thing about being a broadcaster is you have this incredible responsibility to the people that make it all happen, the people that turn on the television set.
Bill Walton

Great, Happen, Turn

The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.
Anthony Mackie

Good, Great, Cool

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