My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
When I first read the script to 'Black Hawk Down,' I didn't think it was the greatest thing in the world - far from it. But I thought the script at least raised some very important questions that are missing from the final product.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
All the great Shakespeare plays are about killing. 'Alas, poor Yorick,' that's about death. And in 'Romeo and Juliet' everyone up ends up dying. The greatest dramas in the world are all about sex, violence and death.
My greatest competition is, well, me.
Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest.
The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.
The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk around with that thought every day.
Our nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper, and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it, because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact, he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
My greatest pleasure is still flying private. I spend between $300,000 to $500,000, depending on my year, on flying private.
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
I'm into the lyrical side of rap. I listen to some old Eminem songs and think, 'Wow, he's a genius.' He's one of the greatest poets of our time. Even when he's out of control, like on 'Cold Wind Blows,' it's incredible.
Hope is the greatest thing for moms of autism. Hope is what gets us out of bed in the morning. I'm on a mission to tell parents that there is a way.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
The greatest truth is honesty, and the greatest falsehood is dishonesty.
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
The greatest service we can do the common man is to abolish him and make all men uncommon.
I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children.
We like to think that a free market's greatest strength is its self-corrective nature.
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.
Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
