The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea. – Georges Cuvier
Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don’t think that’s the best policy. – Harold Prince
General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. – Henry Villard
I felt there’s a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. I’d be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk
I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that – added to a little luck – allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government. – Hasso Plattner
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They’d never seen anything like it. – Hayden Fry
I am a really bad traveler, I hate traveling and I hate being late so I figure if I could just click my fingers and be somewhere then that would be great! – Harry Melling
‘The Great Gatsby’ is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit. – Henry Rollins
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. – Helen Dunmore
It was just a typical London flat, but it was in a great neighborhood. It was across from the Playboy Club, diagonally. From one balcony you could read the time from Big Ben, and from the other balcony you could watch the bunnies go up and down. – Harry Nilsson
I’ve been to Wembley a couple of times to see England, but the match which stands out for me is the 2008 Carling Cup final against Chelsea. I was there as a fan with the family. That was a great day out. – Harry Kane
Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically. – Hans Rosling
I wonder if it is Australia’s great distance from more populated land masses that allows its inhabitants to be left to their own devices, to be incredibly creative and, at times, to be wonderfully weird. – Henry Rollins
Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it. – Hugh Laurie
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. – Harry S Truman
Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam. – Grace Abbott
Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle. – Hillary Clinton
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. – H. G. Wells
I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase. – Hiram Rhodes Revels
I’m a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also. – Harold H. Greene
It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform. – Hal Price
The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It’s not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships. – George Karl
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. – Henry Rollins
The Honda Center is a wonderful arena. And it’s a great arena, not only for the NHL, but it would be a great arena for an NBA team. – Henry Samueli
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. – Herbert Hoover
I did a big thing with Ritz Crackers – great cracker. Am I now the Ritz chef? No! Do I think the cracker has a lot of diversity and appeal? Yeah! Does it mean that’s my foundation of cooking? No! – Guy Fieri
I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens. – Hugh Shelton
