Greatest Quotes

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

When reality television really hit, I just had a backlash towards reality. It seemed like a cheap way to make a product. And then when music reality and 'Idol hit,' I just didn't watch it, it seemed novelty. And of course the story of 'Idol,' this is one of the greatest stories in television history.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Insomnia is my greatest inspiration.

I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

It's a shame because we experienced probably the greatest thing - in art, in pop - we'll ever do. And it would be good to sit around and talk about it.

A women's greatest asset is her beauty.

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with.

If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at 'I Dream of Jeannie' - I mean, he's a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.

The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.

President Barack Obama has stood watch over the greatest job loss in modern American history. And that, my friends, is one inconvenient truth that will haunt this President throughout history.

I think the greatest thing that we can do is take care of each other.

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child, that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then the care is over.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

The greatest crime in a Shakespeare play is to murder the king.

Liberal whites are the greatest enemy of African Americans.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.