Greatest Quotes

Competing at the highest level is the greatest test of one's character.
Russell Mark

Character, Test, Level

Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible; no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now.
Jack Carroll

Business, Care, Place

In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever.
Marion Jones

Opinion, Athlete, Female

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.
Glenn Hughes

Live, Heard, Sabbath

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South

Himself, Half, Pleasure

The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
Diane Ravitch

Education, Hope, American

Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns.
Thomas Bulfinch

Love, Religion, Loyalty

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again.
Ross MacDonald

Trying, Made, Again

Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
Garret Dillahunt

Good, Movies, Afraid

If you knew my wife, you'd be like, 'Yeah, you're very married.' She runs the household. I refer to her as 'the greatest director I've ever worked with.'
Max Greenfield

Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
Art Linkletter

Why, Sometimes, Kids

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
John Hurt

Life, Character, Everything

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.
Peter Carey

Beautiful, True, Before

When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
Sam Neill

Great, Fear, Father

Less than an hour before he'd congratulated himself on escaping all the traps of Earth, all the snares of Man. Not knowing that the greatest trap of all, the final and the fatal trap, lay on this present planet.
Clifford D. Simak

Before, Knowing, Earth

On the other hand, I think that the family, the traditional family, has a fundamental social role, because it's there that children are born and the investment in children is the greatest investment a country can make. The benefits of this investment go to everyone.
Rocco Buttiglione

Family, Children, Country

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Power, Destroy, Air

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Lloyd Alexander

Friends, Others, Teachers

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
Elizabeth George

Happiness, Dark, Interested

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.
Doug Collins

Family, School, Care

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
Zac Posen

Great, Career, Understand

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.
Dizzy Dean

Play, Knows, Anybody

It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
Lance Reddick

Funny, Strength, School

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.
Richard D. Zanuck

Made, After, Wrong

Gore Vidal has been a friend of mine for years, and he's one of the greatest writers in American history.
Cybill Shepherd

History, Friend, American

I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.
Sam Waterston

Talent, Playing, Villain

Even on the greatest teams, there's always one role player.
Keith Olbermann

Player, Role, Teams

It has been my aim throughout present operations to afford the greatest amount of protection to life and property interests, and troops have been stationed accordingly.
George Crook

Life, Present, Aim

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.
Dick Armey

Political, America, Big

The alarm bells sound regularly: cybergeddon; the next Pearl Harbor; one of the greatest existential threats facing the United States. With increasing frequency, these are the grave terms officials invoke about the menace of cybercrime - and they're not understating the threat.
Preet Bharara

Next, United, Sound

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