We are now in the Me Decade – seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history. – Tom Wolfe
I don’t ever know where I’m going. Because one of the wonderful things about writing, which is different than working in programming, you don’t need to know. You could just write and discover where you’re going. And it’s a great deal of fun. – Walter Mosley
I remember seeing this picture my mother had of Dick Clark. It didn’t inspire me to be an actor or anything, but when I did ‘American Dreams’ with Dick Clark, my mother came out, and she showed him this picture of them that was taken 35 years earlier. It was great. – Tom Verica
Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation. – William L. Jenkins
A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy. – Vivica A. Fox
If Lincoln is among history’s truly great men, he didn’t achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln’s destiny. – Steve Erickson
A great deal has been said about my commitment not to raise taxes. It’s a core value – it’s common sense – it’s important to keeping and growing jobs – and it’s mainstream! – Tim Pawlenty
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved. – Walter Pater
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle
At the beginning of the troubles of Saint Domingo, I felt that I was destined to great things. When I received this divine intimation, I was four and fifty years of age; I could neither read nor write. – Toussaint Louverture
I must confess that I’m not a great reader. At the moment I’m reading my son’s ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King and I’ve got a plant catalogue on the go. – Sophie Thompson
I think it’d be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records. – Tavi Gevinson
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
But, you know there’s a lot of westerns – not that they were bad – it’s just that they can be remade because they’re great stories that aren’t indelible in an audience’s mind when it comes to both the cast and the story. – Tom Selleck
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision. – Steven Brust
The American people should be made aware of the trend toward monopolization of the great public information vehicles and the concentration of more and more power over public opinion in fewer and fewer hands. – Spiro T. Agnew
I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that’s going on today. – Tom Reiss
Atlantic has been great to me. They didn’t flinch when I told them I was self-producing, and nobody was popping their head in the studio. – Sturgill Simpson
Lot of the scripts I’ve been in with other non-white actors haven’t been great. Lot of non-white actors ain’t all that great. – Wesley Snipes
A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity. – Zachery Ty Bryan
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. – William Ellery Channing
Being called ‘conscious’ is a great thing to be, but it’s the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be. – Talib Kweli