Great Quotes

The spirit of the Olympic movement is great for young people because it teaches them about the training and discipline required to compete. Even if they don't make the teams, they can rededicate their lives to the art of sport, discipline, and physical fitness.

~ Richard M. Daley

I try to keep at a non-obsessive level of fitness. It's not about looking great, it's about just feeling good. So I do a lot of yoga. Bikram just blows my mind. It's mental as well as physical; if I don't train, I get very depressed.

~ Richard C. Armitage

I do a one-hour workout called Drenched, a cardio-boxing fitness routine, Monday through Friday. There are usually between twenty-five and fifty people there - everyone from stay-at-home moms and professional martial artists to teenagers and seniors. They play great dance music. When I can, I take two classes back-to-back.

~ Carrie Ann Inaba

I don't do very well with extremes of any kind - extreme diets, extreme fitness - so moderation makes a lot of sense, and Hershey's has really great portion-friendly desserts to help people incorporate treats into their lifestyles so they don't feel like they're depriving themselves and are still living a balanced life.

~ Kimberly Williams-Paisley

It is such a great opportunity to be the face of a brand which I remember wearing as a little kid and running around in half-naked. Bonds is now getting very serious about fitness, and their range is amazing. It's beautiful and comfy.

~ Courtney Eaton

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

~ Guy Kawasaki

I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood is an example of climate change and that certainly wasn't because mankind had overdeveloped hydrocarbon energy.

~ Joe Barton

Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

~ John Ashcroft

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

~ Leonardo Dicaprio

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach.

~ David Brainerd

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

~ Emma Goldman

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.

~ Oscar Robertson

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

~ Carl T. Rowan

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way.

~ Christopher Alexander

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

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.

~ Simon Hoggart

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone.

~ Tim Cook

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

~ Wole Soyinka

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

~ Ryan Phillippe

I love to eat cucumber sticks with yogurt. It's a great snack to have at home, especially when I'm having house guests.

~ Gabriela Isler

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

~ Bill Dickey

We have to judge politicians by their cumulative score. In one innings they make a great catch, in another they drop the ball. In one they score a home run, in another they strike out. But it is their cumulative batting average that we are interested in.

~ Jesse Jackson

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

~ Emily Ratajkowski

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

~ Isaac Watts

Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam.

~ Grace Abbott

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

~ Danielle Fishel

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

~ Mike Mills

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

~ Cyrano De Bergerac

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

~ Chris Pine

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

~ Oliver Goldsmith

I know to win a championship, you're not going to do it alone. You're going to have to have a great supporting cast.

~ Klay Thompson

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.

~ John Barrymore

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

~ Roger Ebert

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

~ Marie Curie

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.

~ Black Elk

There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.

~ Harbhajan Singh

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.

~ George Müller

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

~ Isaac D'israeli