You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
The greatest danger of bombs is in the explosion of stupidity that they provoke.
I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.
That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.
I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world it will suck. I mean if the music wasn't important it would just be a poem.
When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up - that's what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done.
I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
London is great, but New York is the greatest city in the world.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
You learned the two greatest thing in life, never rat on your friends, and always keep your mouth shut.
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
I've always been known as a pure scorer, and I've always said if I just sat outside and shot 3s and just really focused on that - coming off of screens and spot-up 3s - and shot six or seven 3s a game, I would probably be more known as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history.
One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
I think I'm a good Canadian, but I'm not the greatest Canadian.
It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.
Universal vaccination may well be the greatest success story in medical history.
A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
Perhaps the greatest Maya mystery of all is the cause of the civilization's abrupt decline. The last dated stela erected at Tikal was put up in A.D. 869; the last anywhere in the Maya world, in 909.
Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.
Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait.
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.
To make my brothers and my sister laugh was the greatest joy to me in my life. I like people who can make fun of themselves a lot.
The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
We yearn for the desire to triumph, and it almost never does in the greatest love stories because we're left yearning for it more in the end, and we wish the world were different as a result. I do love that.
