Words matter. These are the best Great Ones Quotes from famous people such as Paul Di Filippo, Zoe Bell, Gerald Green, Lindsay Lohan, Greg Oden, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The lives of most authors – even, or perhaps especially, the great ones – are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.
I’ve always appreciated great acting performances, but I’ve even learned to appreciate not so great ones ’cause it’s hard.
Some nights you’re going to have a lot of energy, some nights you’re not. The great ones find energy from nothing.
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don’t think there are too many films coming out these days that we’re going to look at in the future and say, ‘This is one of the great ones.’
I know it’s a team game, but, you know, the great ones can do that – have their team involved and take over a game.
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
I’m not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they’re like. They are in love with language. They’re obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren’t more special than anybody else’s, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.
The great ones have the ability to focus and tune everything else out and see more than the others. Average quarterbacks have tunnel vision. They see what’s in front of them. The better you get, the more that tunnel expands, and the more guys on the field you see.
The great ones hate to lose more than they love to win.
The great ones are about winning and winning only.
I’m not going to have a perfect career. It’s better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
At the end of the day, the great ones – well, they rise, and that’s what I want to do.
Portraits of other great ones look down on you in your college halls; but while you are young and sit at the brief feast, what avails their serene gaze if it do not lift up your hearts and movingly persuade you to match your manhood to its inheritance?
I’ve had great luck with directors. I’ve worked with all the great ones.
There’s not many people – only really the great ones – who realize what they were born to do.
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
If I ended up having a big name, I’m still going to keep that fire because that’s what just drives the great ones.
As I get older, I don’t aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.
If you’ve built your identity only on your professional accolades and awards, what is going to be left of your legacy when those trophies tarnish and those records get broken? The Great Ones understand the importance of being well-rounded.
I don’t get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I’ve pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It’s only now that I’m starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I’ve read some really great ones.
I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
People see police officers and think they’re such bad people. We have some who can be some bad people. But we have some great ones out there, that are here to protect us.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
