Words matter. These are the best Great Thing Quotes from famous people such as Zendaya, Loretta Napoleoni, Ricky Gervais, Judith Miller, John C. McGinley, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.
Globalization is a great thing, but it needs a legal framework in which to blossom.
The great thing about being an artist is, we want our work to be seen.
You become an expert by working hard. We’ve got fantastic museums, collections and antique shows. You can go and just start looking. That’s the great thing about knowledge. If you collect Doulton figures, you know about the rare ones.
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.
The great thing that guys like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it’s art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.
One great thing about my mom, about the business, is that she has a really great head on her shoulders about everything and always has been 100 percent about the music and not about the other junk.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
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.
That’s the great thing about women is they are multitaskers, and they can do it all.
The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It’s self-organizing. It’s dynamic. It just feeds on itself.
The great thing about writing jokes for President Obama is that he is not afraid to tell jokes that are actually funny – and not just funny for a politician.
The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.
Any time you can be voted a captain by your peers is always a great thing.
It’s always just a great thing to see your kids connecting and you see the different stages.
The great thing about discovering all the food treasures that Box Hill has to offer is that most of them are packed into an area small enough to wrap your arms around.
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.
For a novelist, the great thing about the Stone Age people is that we know virtually nothing about their beliefs – which means that I get to make it up! But it’s still got to be plausible.
The great thing about ‘World Of Warcraft’ is that you can sit down in your lunch hour and do a couple of quests and still feel like you’ve had a meaningful experience, rather than it feeling like you’ve got a second career.
The great thing about being a lead is getting to go to work every day and have fun.
The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.
The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.
The great thing about David Poile and Nashville is they believe in the people that they hire and they stick with the people that they hire.
The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other, and then I can just go home, and they don’t know.
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
To have a great player like Neymar at PSG would be a great honour. He’s a phenomenal player, and to have great player is a great thing for the team.
I don’t think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren’t a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
The great thing as an actor is that I don’t know what my agent is going to call me with next.
If you can allow yourself to do more good with your creativity by being successful, then that’s a great thing.
It’s a great thing to live in a digital age. It’s convenient; it’s fast.
Yoga is a great thing to do because you can just practice it by yourself in your hotel.
The great thing about money is that people can use it to buy things they need instead of things self-appointed experts think they need.
The great thing about interning at ‘Teen Vogue’ is that there is so much room for growth; interns here do incredible things if they work hard enough and think outside the box.
The great thing about Stephen is that he sees the movie as a separate thing, I think. He wants it to capture the essence of the book, and if he feels that’s been done, then he’s not too particular about the details. I think that’s why he’s happy.
The great thing was that both K-Ci and JoJo told me to not make an R&B track that was reminiscent of radio hit records. ‘Make a Gang Starr track and we’ll write our lyrics to that,’ they told me. They couldn’t stress it enough.
The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.
That’s the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.
The great thing about a name like ‘Cougar Town’ is that you hear it once and you remember it forever. It’s a very ‘loud’ title. But there’s a connection to the word ‘cougar’ that means a lot of people are going to be turned off right away by the title alone without even giving the show a chance.
I love doing action scenes, there’s that great thing when you sort of stop acting because if you’re running, you’re not acting like you’re running, you are just actually running.
Pop has to exist and it’s a great thing.
All my career, I’ve played in great teams – Marseille was a great team, Arsenal was a great thing, but we never won a trophy. With Manchester City, first year, it happened, and it was just a big relief.
The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it’s seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We’re a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we’re going to build on it.
Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it’s kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don’t what else I can say about it. It’s a great thing to do, something I’m definitely proud of.
That’s the great thing about social media: you can make one move, and everybody knows about it, and I kind of like that.
The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains – but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction – that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.
That’s the great thing about being a writer. You dream up amazing questions… and then dream up even more amazing answers.
My life has changed for the better. It’s just amazing. I have to catch myself sometimes. It’s like a dream. It’s a great thing.
The great thing about ‘The Office’ and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it’s mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
There’s that great thing about acting – you’re wearing your heart on your sleeve, and you’re speaking off the cuff. You know, you’re fearless about it, and – and it’s great. And I love it.
Being together on the field as a group, operating as a team, making important plays is a great thing.
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
That was the great, great thing about ‘Star Trek,’ that it was a show that people could tune into at all sorts of different levels.
The great thing about movies is that they’re collaborative. And the worst thing is that they’re collaborative.
I always thought it would be a great thing to do an art carwash. So you can actually go and get your car washed, but while you’re sitting around waiting you can walk in that hallway where you look at the cars going through the window, and that could be changing exhibitions.
People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what’s about to happen is a great thing.
The great thing about the NFL is that you get into it for love, and you realise it is a fabulous business.
The great thing about ‘Coco’ is that for anybody who hears it, it just sticks.
I think the idea of participation trophies has gotta be a really, really great thing. Kids are under enough pressure as it is without encouraging them to be the best too early.
I jumped to the WWE, and the perceived notion was I became more successful. I got to touch more people’s lives and influence more people and perform in front of more people, and that was a great thing.
I think it’s a great thing to support fashion and support designers.
The great thing about this thing we call art is that it has no rules.
There’s certain key dance crazes that are just so much fun – wouldn’t that be a great thing to do, to invent a dance?
I think the great thing about the WWE universe is that they just love to see us perform.
Fear of failure is a great thing. It pushes you past your comfort levels.
The great thing about fiction is that everything you care about ends up going into the book.
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.
This is a great thing that’s happening in baseball. We don’t know if it will ever happen again.
Whenever people get to see you, it’s a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.
People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don’t get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That’s a great thing.
The great thing about wrestling is that it’s very subjective. They’ll let you know what they like and don’t like.
The great thing about stage is that you have a live audience.
The great thing about ‘Total Divas’ is that it gives people who don’t watch wrestling an avenue to see how empowering we women are.
The great thing about coming from where I come from – Liverpool and my family – is that we’re very close. I have a great relationship with my siblings and their kids.
The great thing about Little League was that anyone could play it.
We can bring it all down to the subtleties of the shifting of an eye because we know the camera will catch it. That has been a great thing to learn, and it makes it interesting for a guy who has been in it as long as I have.
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
Everything about ‘Adventure Time’ is the purest form of kid’s play. A kid does not live in the Land of Ooo. That is one of the wonderful things about the show; it doesn’t pretend to be real. That was the great thing about ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’; it existed in a world completely outside any reality a kid recognized.
That’s the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can’t do, so you don’t have to worry about them.
But every so often we’ll get to this place where everyone in the room is fully focused on what’s happening. You see it happens in sports sometimes, when there’s a really important moment. It’s a great thing when you can get to those places, when you look up you don’t see a bunch of phones out.
The great thing about theatre is that the performance develops over the run – it changes each time.
It’s such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.
I think it’s important at the end of the day you know obviously playing in the NBA is a great thing, but representing your country at the highest level is something totally different.
You know, the great thing about acting or, indeed, filmmaking in general, is that we’re all given a reason to do research. You kind of have to, really, if you want to know what you’re doing, but it opens up this whole new understanding.
It’s always a great thing getting to play in the last game of the year.
The great thing about baseball is there’s a crisis every day.
To me, it’s very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it’s not me.
A big upper body is not a great thing for tennis, and for me, flexibility is important.
The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep’s or Kate Winslet’s. It’s just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but you also get to do ‘Have I Got News For You.’ You get to do a sitcom, but you also get to do the ‘Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice.’ I’m easily bored, so I like the variety.
Yes, but the great thing about all the people – and I don’t think there is any exception – who I’ve worked with is they’ve all been very, very talented musicians.
The great thing about using the past is that it gives you the most colossal freedom to invent. The research is necessary, of course, but no one writes a novel to dramatically illustrate what everybody already knows.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
I think that’s the great thing about the NFL. You’re out there, and there are very few perennials. It’s a battle every single year. You can go first to worst, worst to first.
It’s a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy – they’re not on their full game if they underestimate you.
Driverless cars are a great thing.
The great thing about scenes that involve nervous breakdowns – in the little experience I have doing them – is that there’s no way to craft it. You just have to do it, and it sort of crafts itself in just being incredibly messy.
The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.
While GeoCities isn’t cool, it isn’t a bad thing. It did a great thing – enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.
When we go out, we have our favorite places, and the great thing about Minnesota is that most Minnesotans are pretty respectful of your time when you’re with your family.
That’s the great thing about ‘The West Wing:’ you really felt like you were in the thick of it.
That’s the great thing about university: you’ve got people around you who are taking a risk and trying things out themselves. It gives you the confidence to try and take it to the next step, which was drama school.
‘Invisible Man’ holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn’t have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.
The great thing about the Young Turks is that we’ve always stayed true to our principles.
Being called ‘conscious’ is a great thing to be, but it’s the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
That’s the great thing about ‘Total Divas,’ is that it brings fans in that weren’t already watching or wouldn’t normally watch.
Chelsea are a massive family, that is the great thing about the club.
I think that’s the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even ‘Night of the Living Dead,’ they’ve always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know.
Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.
The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character’s supposed to have.
Unrequited love is always a great thing.
The great thing about the beach they use in ‘Home & Away’ is that they can’t kick you off it, so there were always tons of Irish people on it all the time.
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That’d be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
The great thing about being an actor is things happen to you very quickly. I like to put myself in the way of surprise.
Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women – we’re all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn’t matter, as long you’re funny.
The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can’t seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it’s my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.
That’s the great thing about ‘Corrie’: it is an ensemble cast, and it didn’t rest on one person’s shoulders by any means.
The great thing about pastry is there are so many avenues – it’s very hard to get bored doing this.
The great thing about coming to Melbourne is that people talk about Sydney being the food capital but Melbourne is a lot more; it has that residential feel, a feeling of homeliness. When you go to restaurants, it’s known as a creative, artistic city. That’s what you get with the food.
A lot of time, I’d spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what’s going on. It’s also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you’re not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don’t really dress; they are too conservative, as it’s always a question of money. In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control.
We certainly had our moments when I was growing up. But the great thing was, if Mom was working on a night shoot, she’d be up making breakfast before school.
Anytime I’m given scripts where I’m sort of the fantasy girl, it’s hard for me because that’s not real and I don’t think it’s a great thing to put out there consistently.
The great thing about ‘Vera Stark’ is that my research was watching movies, screwball comedies, so I could literally sit back and relax.
That’s the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don’t know are going to happen at the end.
The great thing about the STP catalog is it’s diversity.
The great thing about small children is they’re portable, so we take them everywhere, but when it comes to 2015, Zachary’s going to school, and I want to be there to drop him off and pick him up. I don’t want to just be the father who reads them a bedtime story.
The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.
I wish we could get a national buddy network going. It would be a great thing for the American people.
I think that’s the great thing for us – we’re a band full of songwriters, and we’re capable of writing all kinds of songs.
The great thing about New York is that you don’t have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I walk all day and see the most interesting stuff. There’s always some kind of drama playing out.
The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
I like second chances. I’ve given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It’s not easy to forgive. I definitely don’t forget, but I do forgive.
Community service has been a great thing for me.
To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
The great thing is, it’s not just about me and my impact. What you want to do is come in here and be a great teammate, lead by your excellence. That’s all I’ve been trying to do.
The great thing about country songs is the storytelling.
That’s the great thing about this sport: it’s always different.
I think the great thing about the Jack Ryan films is that the plot and the story always take center stage. If you’ve done your job as the actor portraying Jack Ryan, you are present enough to make an impact, but you let the story shine.
Luckily, I don’t think that I’m too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it’s easy to see that it’s not a great thing to have.
That’s the great thing about being an actor, you know, you can just jump to different jobs.
The great thing is my dad was OK with whatever I wanted to do. He always supported me, and once I showed I was serious about football, that’s when he really started to get involved and give me pointers.
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It’s a thing of discovering. That’s when writing is really working. You’re on the trail of something, and you don’t quite know what it is.
The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they’re basically overlooked.
The great thing about getting older is that you get a chance to tell the people in your life who matter what they mean to you.
I’ve been writing an ongoing letter to my children since they were born, full of recollections of their childhoods. I’ve filled two journals. It’s a great thing to do as a mother – you forget a lot as you go along, but reading over what you’ve written brings all the memories back.
It would be a great thing for my legacy to get in the ring with an all-time great.
Thats the great thing about the Dirty Knobs over the years. Wed play these relatively small places and we wouldnt have any hits. Wed try to win them over in the moment.
Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I really wish I had, like, seven lives so I could go from being a hipster one day to a punk the next. But that’s the great thing about fashion. In a way, it’s like acting, because you can try on all these different roles.
My generation produced some terrific writers from all over, and the great thing about it is that they were all mixed in race.
I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it’s the only real absolute in the world.
The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don’t even care about my career anymore.
I think Linux is a great thing, because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because, of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot.
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.
The best messages in any given negotiation are really implied indirectly, come to the other person based on thinking that you’re getting them to do – getting them to get some really solid thought behind their answers. And so a great thing to send someone in an email is, ‘Have you given up on this project?’
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
I think it’s a great competition and it’s a great thing to be scoring in the FA Cup.
‘You’re not alone’ can be a great thing to hear when you’re feeling quite despondent and alienated from the world and yourself. But if you’re someone who’s been completely overwrought with the intensity of life and the world, getting some space to be alone can be one of the things you crave most.
It’s a great thing to play a final in your capital city.
Also I wanted to be an explorer when I was a kid. That was my first idea of what would be a really great thing to do in the world: to discover unknown things and pick around in them and see what you could bring back home to go, ‘Look! The world is bigger than you thought it was.’
The great thing about America is that people take its history and mythologise it.
That’s the great thing about music. You can find some ’60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it’s so old.
The great thing about McDonald’s is that they have a lot of different things on the menu. I love their salads.
That’s one great thing about my profession, traveling to locations.
Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there’s also the unsexy parts of the business that you’re faced with, like getting money. It’s a really great thing to do. You feel like you’re really an artist when you’re doing that and you’re in a company of artists.
That’s another great thing about getting older. Your life is written on your face.
The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you’re going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.
The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you’re good enough. It’s just your audience.
All it takes is for one person to say, ‘Wow, that looks great on you’ – and then they wear it for the next 10 years. That’s the great thing about guys. They just need that little bit of encouragement.
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.
The great thing about training/exercise is it is non-bias. It changes from person to person, but everyone can still enjoy the benefits.
The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.
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.
Probably the best thing for me to hear from my family is telling me that they are proud. To be able to see them smile is a great thing.
The great thing about writing ‘Deadpool’ is that he can demolish expectations and typical comic book conventions with monster truck force. There are few other characters who can transition so easily from one type of story to the next.
As far as trucks, the great thing about a Range Rover is if you’re going out for a dinner, even a black tie event, you can take the Range Rover.
I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn’t feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn’t know at all what this great thing would become.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I’ll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that’s the great thing about social media. It’s not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
The great thing about the story of ‘Twilight’, or the story of ‘I Am Number Four’ is that you get to deal with real issues of identity and what people are going through and the choice of who you’re going to be, but it’s all large.
In hockey, there are no second chances, but the great thing about acting is that there actually are. If you do a scene and you think you can do better – take two!
The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you’re purchasing a piece of art it’s a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.
The great thing about kids is the immediate gratification. As soon as I get home from touring, my wife and kids become my life. There is nothing sweeter.
I think the great thing about social media is it gives people access to you on a totally personal level that they didn’t have before, so it’s really important, and it’s a great way to get people involved and excited about what you’re doing.
That’s the great thing about the ‘Sin City’ movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.
Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn’t leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.
The great thing about ‘Skins’ is that it’s not ‘90210.’ We don’t have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.
Obviously I know if you’re putting yourself out there, saying, ‘Hey! Listen to my music!,’ with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. ‘I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.’ Fine: don’t care. That’s the great thing about art: it’s not for everyone.
The great thing about horror films is that they work on a low budget. The genre is the star. You don’t need big movie stars, and I actually think a lot of times that the best horror films are the low budget contained ones.
The great thing about fiction is you can fix things and make things better.
I’ve seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don’t go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.
That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.
The great thing about Pete and Peggy’s storyline is that you barely have to do anything. There’s so much there, so much history, that you can have them exchange a look and it’s so loaded. So you honestly don’t have to do anything.
The great thing about social movements is everybody gets to be a part of them.
It’s a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you.
No, I think marriage is a great thing.
The great thing about ‘American High’ is that, every year, you can do a completely different environment.
Joining the service is a great thing. I think everybody should join the service. It is a great life and we do exciting things.
I have nothing against getting married. It’s a great thing.
I love to post behind-the-scenes photos of what is really going on. My twitter friends really seem to like that and the great thing is I can deliver them information right away.
Winning the European Championship was a great thing for me, and I understood what it was to win a major trophy and what I had been missing.
Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
I think the FA Cup has great memories and I think there have been Nigerian legends that have played in it as well, like Jay-Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu. They’ve played in it, so it’s a great thing to play in the FA Cup.
The great thing about dancing is it’s a way to get close to a beautiful woman you have never met.
The great thing about America, what I’ve loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
I’m kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what’s around the corner.
That’s the great thing about golf is you never know who is going to win. On good, tough golf courses, it brings it back to the best players. But it’s always the best player that week is going to win. I mean, so it could be anybody.
The great thing about a parallel-dimensions story is that you can literally never run out of plot.
That’s the great thing about having your friends around you. I’ve known these guys forever. I really enjoy their company just as people. You couldn’t ask for a better work environment.
That’s the great thing about Comic Con – people are so accepting of one another.
The great thing about football is that it’s a game that involves so many people.
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.
The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.
Brexit has energised millions of people, young and old, to take part in our democracy and that’s a great thing.
The Jewish culture has a wonderful thing about education. It has a great thing about family; it has a great thing about unity, hard work, dedication. I would like to say the African-American community should emulate that.
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
I’ve had filmmakers, I even had Bono come and talk to me about having a sequel to ‘E.T.’ help with an environmental message – I listened. I can certainly understand. I mean, the great thing about Bono is that everything he does is in service to a greater cause.
The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you’ve got a beginning, a middle, and an end.
I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have.
The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there’s a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
The great thing about libertarianism is it really is the American dream: It’s the ability of everybody to live their life and build their life according to what they want, so long as they don’t hurt anybody else.
It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.
That more women are getting involved in politics – either by running for office, managing campaigns or voting – is a great thing.
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.
The great thing about acting is you don’t have to worry about yourself at all. I tend to just get out of the way of me and let something come through.
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.
The great thing about fashion is that you can create a very unique version of yourself to display to the world.
The great thing about a big studio movie is that you get to work with the best, the most talented craft people in the world. But you have to be able to communicate, trust, and empower everybody.
I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinking that my dark skin wasn’t a great thing. I’ve found freedom in music and songwriting, which has given me a freedom in how I present myself. I’m glad I’ve got makeup to celebrate that with.
I’ve always been drawn more to film. But ‘Bloodline,’ to me, feels like a 13-hour piece of cinema. And the great thing about Netflix is you get to be almost like an editor. You choose how much of the narrative you want to watch at a time, which makes you complicit in the story.
It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don’t really care whether you’re the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what’s important.
I think that’s the great thing about acting: you get to play different characters and enhance one part of yourself to really bring that out and create a new person.
I wasn’t that great in sports. I started doing children’s theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, ‘I can do this. It’s fun.’ I wanted to go for it, and I thought I’d like to make a living doing this.
I think that’s the great thing, ya’ know, that women can do anything that they want now.
What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can’t really explore in other situations.
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.
The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.
The great thing about being a writer is that you have a long, perhaps frighteningly long time in which to do your work.
When I was younger, I wanted to be tall and skinny. And because I wasn’t, I was disappointed. The great thing about getting older is that I’ve come to accept my shape – and embrace it.
The great thing about Roald Dahl is he tackled the big questions of life without any fear of being shocking or brutal, because he knew the kids could take it.
The great thing about modern feminism is that women can define what it means to them: it can mean being ambitious, it can mean being emotional, it can mean being sensitive and compassionate and also a leader. It can mean all those things.
That’s the great thing about G.I. Joe: it’s essentially superheroes, but it’s military based – and it’s based in reality.
That’s free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing – the truly democratic thing about it – is that you don’t even have to be a player to lose.
The great thing about Gospel is that you don’t have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
Getting all dressed up and putting on fancy clothes – all of that’s a great thing, but oddly, it doesn’t really have a lot to do with acting most of the time.
There’s no such thing as too much. If there’s too much, then that’s a great thing.
For comedy reasons, any place we can have really big egos and very high stakes is a great thing to go for.
The great thing about being a musician today is that you can explore your creativity in multiple ways without compromising your primary focus.
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.
Acting’s not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else’s shoes without dealing with the consequences. It’s very therapeutic in that way.
The great thing about computer animation is that all of those environments exist as three-dimensional worlds, so these VR worlds already exist.
A UK-Australia trade deal won’t just be a good thing, it’ll be a great thing, for our businesses, for our consumers, for our workers and for our two great countries.
I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
The great thing about working with NPR – and, really, there’s like a million of ’em – is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.
Number one is a great thing, and I’ll always know that I’m number one, but 44 is my favourite number, so I want to keep it on the car.
I really like the mission at SurveyMonkey, which is, we help people make better decisions. It’s just a great thing.
The great thing about football is that it’s so fast, there are so few interruptions.
That’s the great thing about being an all-rounder. You can impose yourself on the game with bat and ball.
To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
I’ve enjoyed all of the roles I have played for different reasons, which is the great thing about acting. You love different projects for different reasons.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
I think that’s the great thing about interiors is that they can be treated like a great wardrobe. Choose a sofa and chairs that are staples in clean shapes that will keep for the next couple of years or decade. Then an easy way to bump up your entire room or your interiors is accessories.
To stay in one time zone and play in a great conference – a great all-around conference, but, specifically, a great basketball conference – is a great thing.
The great thing about ‘Allen Gregory’ is that we try to make it really questionable that the things he says have happened, have really happened. We like that ambiguity.
The great thing about the ‘Fast and Furious’ world is everything is up for speculation. Yes, anything is a possibility.
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.
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.
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.
The great thing about musicals is that they transcend race.
You know what, I’m happy to say that everything outside of ‘Dexter’ feels like a vacation, and I don’t mean to say anything negative about the show. It’s just a different kind of work. Emotionally it’s taxing and complicated, and that’s a great thing.
I made my money the old-fashioned way; I inherited it. I think that’s a great thing to do.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It’s a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
The great thing about freshwater fish is most of them are incredibly ugly, a lot of them are, so no one can fail to look good next to some of these things.
Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
That’s the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.
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.
The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander. There’s the special thing that each record can mean a different thing to every person listening to it.
It’s a great thing if you’re a creative person and have some kind of acting or dance or singing, any art. I think it’s great to be around people who support that and who are into it like you are, and you can have one big family and teachers who know what they’re doing.
I think the great thing about a television set is that it can be turned on and off, and you don’t have to watch it if you think it’s going to be something that you’re not going to like or learn from.
Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone – where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
I think the great thing about religion is it’s there to teach us the good path and that we’re all equal, that we should be treated as such.
The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.
I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that’s a great thing.
The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
Democracy can tie your hands in a rock ‘n’ roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you’ve got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it’s sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.
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.
I think when an actress is good, roles in mid-forties is a great thing.
The great thing about ‘Hamilton,’ for me, is so many people have been exposed to and are more open to hip-hop and certain artists, despite the stigma that had before been attached to it.
This is a great thing, to make a living as a professional golfer, isn’t it?
Hollywood can buy a lot of pieces of the puzzle, but the great thing is they can never buy word of mouth.
The great thing about a pilot is you can make your mistakes and no-one sees them… Or they see them on iPlayer and it gets taken off a year later, to be disposed of or whatever’s happened to it.
The great thing about detective stories, in particular, the case can always be interesting as well as the characters.
People have got to let their bodies breathe a little bit more. That’s the great thing about being a pompous, jumped-up rock god. There’s plenty of air around you.
Food is a great thing to be enthusiastic about, its not hurting anybody.
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.
A review of maths teaching is a great thing, but it’s a complex issue, and often the damage is done in the very early years of education.
The great thing about show business is that there’s no mandatory retirement age.
I learned everything out of children’s homes. The kids had to stick together, we had to unify, and we did that, and I think that was a great thing.
The great thing about being married to somebody like Christina is that we both are on the same page. We’re both energetic, we’re both busy, we’re both 100 miles an hour.
The great thing about my two lives is I love them both. I’m very ambitious and nothing gets in the way of me practising and concentrating on winning golf tournaments. But then I come home and get back to normality.
Isn’t that the great thing about Christmas? You get a lot of respite, time to recharge your batteries, time with family without too much else happening anywhere else in the world, time to focus on the people you love and the activities that you enjoy, time to exercise, to read.
The great thing about ‘Stand Up for Cancer’ is it doesn’t take itself too seriously, this is out there, we’re going to help sort it out, and we’re going to have a laugh while we do it.
The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody’s love. It’s that they make you feel that you can love everybody.
When ‘Blade Runner’ came out, and especially, even actually when ‘Alien’ came out, it kind of changed how all science fiction movies were designed after that. And that was a really great thing. Now we’re watching a lot of movies that are Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of Xeroxes of ‘Blade Runner.’
The great thing about the comedy world is that everybody is somewhat of an outsider. That’s the community where outsiders feel like they’re insiders.
The great thing about letting people be true to themselves is they often do very good things indeed.
The great thing about adventure, when told correctly, is it is one of the few genres that everybody in the family can watch together.
I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn’t a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.
Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin’ hymns is a great thing to do.
And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.
Every player that plays for any organization, having great fans on your side every night is a great thing.
Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.
I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.
Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you’re not learning or growing.
I think we’ll all keep pushing each other, which is a great thing.
That’s the great thing about being a teenager. You think you’re a genius.
‘Skins’ has been such a great thing for our generation – I don’t want it to become a parody of itself.
The great thing about women directors is that they’re not only involved in the performances – they can gauge where we all are personally and know how to direct us better because of that.
No great thing is created suddenly.
The great thing about a sitcom is that you’re in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you’re dealing with, and there’s kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you’re going to suck.
One great thing about going to a fashion event in the morning, especially in February in New York, is that the other attendees are dressed less like models themselves. A winter coat, it turns out, is a great equalizer.
The great thing about both Indian and Western pop music is that they’re fast and have a beat.
The great thing about being a standard-issue, straight white person is you have so much time. Gay people, people of color, we have less time! We have to be a living Learning Annex to everybody. We don’t have time to master hobbies like skipping rocks along lakes.
I was concerned about that, because I’ve always been so specific about doing independent films, but I’ve never done anything that’s so genuinely and ridiculously fun. And that’s a great thing, for me to discover that that’s possible.
But that’s the great thing about MMA, you know, you can never predict what’s going to happen.
There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
A great thing about kids is they’re just themselves and can’t help it a lot of the times.
To be shapely when you’re in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone’s looking for, or they weren’t then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that’s like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn’t.
The great thing about ‘Weeds’ is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.
The great thing about the Internet is you can launch a product, and within just a few hours, people will tell you what they think about it.
The great thing about film is you start and finish. It’s a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.
I have a large watch collection, and classic watches are especially important to me. I had a silver Rolex, and I actually gave it to my little brother. He wears it every day. He’s an actor, so whenever he goes to an audition, he can look down, see it, and it gives him confidence. It was a great thing to pass on.
The great thing about an anthology is that each year is its own 10-hour movie, and the only requirement is that it’s the best 10-hour movie that I can make out of the story.
Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that’s a great thing.
It’s a great thing that the United States has given the rest of the world – no other country has given such great popular music to the Far East and Europe. When I play those great countries, a lot of times, the audience starts singing the songs with me. They know them. They love them.
The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.
The great thing about making a film on a submarine is that it’s kind of like making a play. You’ve got this limited environment.
That’s the great thing about sports – nothing’s guaranteed.
I think it’s a great thing that players have to go to school for at least a year. I think it definitely helps you in the long run.
I think from a driving perspective, the great thing of being in a simulator a lot is that you can constantly work on areas. Of course it’s not like being in a real car, and you always have to remember that, but it means there are all these things that you can work on.
It’s a great thing about being pregnant – you don’t need excuses to pee or to eat.
The great thing about life – I’d rather not know and just hope I’m happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.
The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
The great thing about acting is that, until you’re dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I’m excited to explore.
‘How’ is a great thing to know. ‘Why’ is the ultimate. I’m the ‘why’ coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.
The great thing about Dallas is there’s no paparazzi.
It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings.
The great thing about first-time actors is that they listen. If you say something in a scene, they were listening to it. They weren’t thinking about the return line.
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
I think it’s the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons.
The great thing about being on tour is that… the band plays at night and other than that we have a lot of free time.
I have never been a major fashionista, but I love a suit, and I did have one made for me by the tailor Stephen Williams. The great thing about a bespoke suit is that it covers up my pot belly. When I buy a suit, I’ll pick shoes, belt, tie, shirt and socks, and that will be what I always wear with it.
People say things they’ll never do but then do them because they want to be a part of ‘this great thing.’
I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.
The great thing about athletics is that it’s like poker sometimes: you know what’s in your hand, and it may be a load of rubbish, but you’ve got to keep up the front.
The great thing with wrestling, independent wrestling more considerably, is that you can be who you want to be. There’s no-one there to tell you what to do.
The great thing about ‘Mirzapur’ is that no one character is clear black or white, every character is working in a grey shade.
The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
Being back home is a great thing for me, being with my family, being with friends, being with people that have got your back no matter what.
Here’s the thing – I mean, I don’t act for statues. I really don’t. The great thing about winning an award is that it creates opportunities.
While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It’s a great thing.
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
I really enjoy representing my country and think the principles of what Fed Cup is about and the team environment is a great thing to be a part of.
I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It’s a great thing to work through problems on your own.
I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don’t like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.
We do the best we can and the great thing about this sport is every two weeks you know whether it is good enough or not.
In today’s world, where everybody is so anticipating the next great thing and everyone is so ready to shut the door on people, I don’t really care what the world says.
FX does a great thing with its comedies where they give them a slow push out there.
The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
My parents taught me a great thing when I was a little kid to not read newspapers or follow the media.
The responsibility I have is a great thing, from helping tennis grow in Canada, but also in the future, being able to do stuff through my foundation, helping kids, and helping everyone I can, and really trying to make a difference. It would be a shame to be in the spotlight, have a voice and not do much with it.
Keith Moon was amazing as a drummer, but he was also a nut, and it reflected in his drumming. And the great thing about Who records is that you can almost get hold of the vinyl and feel his heart.
My dad is my hero. We have a strong relationship around sport. It has been such a big part of his life and now mine, and for him to be one of my coaches is a great thing.
That’s the great thing about the Tour. There’s always next year and the chance to rectify everything.
The great thing about ‘Battlestar’ was that it was basically ‘Star Wars’ but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge ‘Battlestar’ fan.
I can manage it if I don’t make it in Hollywood. I’ve got nothing to lose, which is the great thing. There’s no pressure.
A TV show is constant work, which is the great thing about it.
I’m not perfect. I’m never going to be. And that’s the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you’re trying to get better every day. You’re trying to improve.
A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that’s the great thing about synths – you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.
That’s the great thing about how ‘SVU’ works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show.
The Internet was crucial for our success. It is a great thing. It is a big democracy because people can choose what they like.
Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.
I think Linux is a great thing, in the big picture. It’s a great hacker’s tool, and it has a lot of potential to become something more.
For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they’re saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
I don’t care what anybody says: Nothing is better than a tomato you grow. There’s something about it that’s different than a tomato you can buy. It’s a great thing.
I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.
The great thing about the Wilburys was that none of us had to take the heat by ourselves. I was just a member of the band. Nobody felt like he was above anybody else. We had such a good time.
That is the great thing about Impact – they care about each individual talent and everything that we put out on TV has a lot of thought and time put into it.
The great thing with film is that it doesn’t have an ego. It’s just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.
The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.
The great thing about behavioural psychology and economics is that they help us to see that there are actually pretty good reasons why human beings swing from greed to fear, and why we’re not really calculating machines or utility-maximisers.
The great thing about working in cable is that, since the season is truncated – we only do 12 shows – the writers are more at ease in terms of mapping out the trajectory of the story and the characters.
The great thing about being an actor in a film is that you’re able to start knowing exactly where you’re going to finish and really paint something in between. You can work to know the arc you need to build. Whereas in television, it is open-ended, and you’re constantly guessing. There are pros and cons to both.
The great thing about James Baldwin and his writing is that it’s still fresh every time you pick it up. That’s also the sad thing about his writing sometimes, too.
