Greatest Quotes

I think Tom Paine is one of the greatest men that's ever lived.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Pulling on your country's shirt is the greatest honour a footballer can have. It's what I always dreamed of as a kid and I get a buzz every time.

America is the greatest country in the whole world.

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

In my judgment, the greatest risks are international terrorist groups like al Qaeda and Hezbollah. The war in Iraq has taken our attention off those priorities.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death.

The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

It is funny because the guy who is my boss now, Howard Stern, has a similarity there. He got big being a regular guy. He wasn't the greatest looking guy in the world.

I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.