G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”
Source: Personality Development
“Great works - and I think Star Wars is a great work - are easily susceptible to multiple plausible interpretations. Some of them are pretty nutty, but the idea that we should see it as profoundly feminist, or as a deeply Christian tale, or as a Freudian exercise... I think all of those have some truth.”
“Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.”
“Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance. Those that walk with vigor, three hours a day, will pass in seven years a space equal to the circumference of the globe.”
Source: Rasselas
“Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.”
Source: The Complete Works of Leo Tolstoy: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs, Letters & Essays on Art, Religion and Politics: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, The Death of Ivan Ilych, A Confession, The Cossacks, Correspondences with Gandhi, The Kreutzer Sonata, Fables and Stories for Childrenand Many More
“Great works of art can be produced in barbarous societies - in fact the very narrowness of primitive society gives their ornamental art a peculiar concentration and vitality. At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum, it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable - as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.”
“Great works of literature from other places are not only censored by banning them, but even more so by silencing them, by refusing to translate them in the first place. Marginalization is the worst form of censorship and intellectual assassination. Likewise, choosing what gets translated into a certain language and what gets marginalized is a form of shaping and constructing the historical memory of a place according to whims of those who own the money and means of knowledge production.”
“Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.”
Source: John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose
“Great wrestlers make other wrestlers great”
“Great writers and my mom never used food as an object. Instead it was a medium, a catalyst to mend hearts, to break down barriers, to build relationships. Mom's cooking fed body and soul. She used to quip, "If the food is good, there's no need to talk about the weather." That was my mantra for years---food as meal and conversation, a total experience.
I leaned my forehead against the glass and thought again about Emma and the arrowroot. Mom had highlighted it in my sophomore English class. "Jane Fairfax knew it was given with a selfish heart. Emma didn't care about Jane, she just wanted to appear benevolent."
"That girl was stupid. She was poor and should've accepted the gift." The football team had hooted for their spokesman.
"That girl's name was Jane Fairfax, and motivation always matters." Mom's glare seared them.
I tried to remember the rest of the lesson, but couldn't. I think she assigned a paper, and the football team stopped chuckling.
Another memory flashed before my eyes. It was from that same spring; Mom was baking a cake to take to a neighbor who'd had a knee replacement.
"We don't have enough chocolate." I shut the cabinet door.
"We're making an orange cake, not chocolate."
"Chocolate is so much better."
"Then we're lucky it's not for you. Mrs. Conner is sad and she hurts and it's spring. The orange cake will not only show we care, it'll bring sunshine and spring to her dinner tonight. She needs that."
"It's just a cake."
"It's never just a cake, Lizzy."
I remembered the end of that lesson: I rolled my eyes----Mom loathed that----and received dish duty. But it turned out okay; the batter was excellent.
I shoved the movie reel of scenes from my head. They didn't fit in my world. Food was the object. Arrowroot was arrowroot. Cake was cake. And if it was made with artisan dark chocolate and vanilla harvested by unicorns, all the better. People would crave it, order it, and pay for it. Food wasn't a metaphor---it was the commodity---and to couch it in other terms was fatuous. The one who prepared it best won.”
Source: Lizzy and Jane
“great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.”
“Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.”
Source: Truth and Lies in Literature: Essays and Reviews
“Great writers are the saints for the godless.”
“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.”
Source: In Defence of T. S. Eliot
“Great writers create; writers of smaller gifts copy”
“Great writers experience their dreams. They put them on paper, where others can read about them.”
Source: The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
“Great writers know what to cut out. It's the same in life. Clear ambitions. Clear relationships. This is the stuff of good story.”
“Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.”
“Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.”
“Great writers speak with their works not with their mouths!”
“Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience.”
“Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.”
“Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.”
“Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.”
“Great writing is about packing a single thought into a handful of words so that your life can be enlarged by a boatload of growth. And if what you’re reading isn’t doing that for you, it’s just scribbling.”
“Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.”
“Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.”
Source: George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons
“Great wrongs unleash with savage ferocity and apologies vomit forth with epic reluctance.”
“Great, you know how I love zombies. Except you can’t kill zombies.”
Source: Cowboy's Redemption
“Great! He has indigestion, so let's torture him with cake.”
“Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.”
Source: Ferdydurke
“Great, as long as you're happy”
“Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.”
“Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.”
Source: The lightning thief
“Great, it passes on (in constant flow).”
Source: Tao Te Ching
“Great, just great. The only thing to make him a worse asshole would be to kick a puppy.’ (Nathan)”
Source: Sherrilyn Kenyon and Dianna Love - A B.A.D. Collection: Phantom in the Night, Whispered Lies, Silent Truth and an excerpt from Alterant
“Great, lets round up all the useless cats and hope a tree falls on them - Jayfeather”
“Great, now I’ve turned into a manga character who repeated everything everyone said.”
Source: Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace
“Great, tell me when you've defeated Voldemort for me, will you?”
“Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids”
Source: Life As We Knew It
“Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.”
Source: Maximum Ride: Angel
“Great, truly world-shaking revolutions of a spiritual nature are not even conceivable and realizable except as the titanic struggles of individual formations, never as enterprises of coalitions.”
“Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful world”
Source: Lilliput Lectures
“Great," Percy said. "Seven of us against Hercules." "And a satyr!" Hedge added. "We can take him.”
“Great," Shane said. "Look i'd rather not be on janitorial duty. I have allergies to cleaners." "And to cleaning," Michael said. "Look who's talking, Didn't the do one of those Animal Planet documentaries about the roaches in your room?”
Source: Black Dawn: The Morganville Vampires
“Great,' I said. 'Visit exotic Australia. Get bitten by an exotic snake. Die exotically.”
Source: Impulse
“Great,” Percy said. “I always wanted to be glue.”
“Great,” Simon said. “Maybe I’ll even make it back before my mother notices I’m gone. What’s the time difference between here and Manhattan?” “You have a mother?” Aline looked amazed.”
Source: City of Glass
“Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?”
Source: My Soul to Take
“Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...”
Source: Evil at Heart