Quotes with great-sounding

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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Kingsley Amis Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
    Memoirs (1991)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Barry Humphries Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
    The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Fielding Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Benjamin Millepied Nowadays I actually cook Italian-style food more than French heavy sauces. I make a good salad, some great roasted vegetables, grilled fish. I'm crazy about L.A. because at the farmers' market you find all kinds of wild mushrooms.
    Benjamin Millepied
    French dancer and choreographer (1977 - )
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  • Boris Spassky Nowadays young people have great choice of occupations, hobbies, etc, so chess is experiencing difficulties because of the high competition. Now it's hard to make living in chess, so our profession does attract young people.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Nurture your mind with great thoughts for you will never go any higher than what you think.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Callimachus O Charidas, what of the under world? Great darkness. And what of the resurrection? A lie. And Pluto? A fable; we perish utterly.
    Epigrams Epigram 14; translation from J. W. Mackail (ed.) S
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Camille Pissarro Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
    Camille Pissarro
    Danish-French Impressionist painter (1830 - 1903)
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  • Howard Nemerov Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Joan Didion Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Francoise Sagan Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • Oscar Wilde Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jeanette Winterson Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take it personally.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 141
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bill Kreutzmann Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Bill Pullman Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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