Great Quotes

I have women working in high positions. I was one of the first people to put women in charge of big construction jobs. And, you know, I've had a great relationship with women.

~ Donald Trump

Especially when you're working so closely with people and you have to develop intense relationships, it's great when you have a relationship and a rapport with them.

~ Dominic Sherwood

Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship.

~ Nick Kroll

You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

~ Steve Harvey

God and I have a great relationship, but we both see other people.

~ Dolly Parton

Our interests lie in attracting added value and talent to France as a result of Brexit, but also in having a balanced relationship with Great Britain. We must not sacrifice the short term for our bilateral relationship.

~ Emmanuel Macron

It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.

~ Penelope Cruz

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

~ Keith Richards

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

~ David Whyte

There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single happy, communicative, functional parental relationship in the whole of 'Great Expectations,' even among the minor characters.

~ David Nicholls

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

~ Chely Wright

My husband and I have, in some ways, a non-traditional relationship - especially when it comes to domestic duties. He does most of the cooking, dishes, and laundry, while I do most of the yard work. I love to mow the lawn! And I take great satisfaction in planting and pruning.

~ Therese Fowler

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.

~ Jodi Lyn O'keefe

The success of any great moral enterprise does not depend upon numbers.

~ William Lloyd Garrison

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

~ Nigel Farage

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

~ Paulo Coelho

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

~ K. Flay

Success is a great deodorant.

~ Elizabeth Taylor

I've had great success being a total idiot.

~ Jerry Lewis

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.

~ Philip Guedalla

Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

~ Claude M. Bristol

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

~ Orison Swett Marden

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

~ Albert Schweitzer

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

~ Mindy Kaling

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

~ Samuel Goldwyn

At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.

~ Brooke Shields

I take great pride in all the tremendous success we've enjoyed at CBS. And the good news is that I feel even more enthusiastic about what my terrific team and I will accomplish going forward.

~ Leslie Moonves

I'm a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I'd rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.

~ Billy Collins

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.

~ Stephen Spender

I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

~ Alice Oswald

The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it.

~ David Whyte

For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse.

~ Alice Walker

The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.

~ Patti Smith

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

~ Victor Hugo

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

~ Viggo Mortensen

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

~ Andrea Bocelli

I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives.

~ Sylvia Plath

I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available.

~ Satya Nadella

I think poetry is able to say things in such a small, perfect way that are so hard to say. I think it's a perfect medium for expressing difficult ideas and concepts and feelings. It's one of my great loves.

~ Jerry Hall