#Great

"I have a need to always make people laugh. I have a desperate need. I love a great sense of humor. The people I sort of surround myself with have that."

"When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement."

"We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading."

"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."

"I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony."

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness."

"Great leaders understand that historical success tends to produce stable and inwardly focused organizations, and these outfits, in turn, reinforce a feeling of contentment with the status quo."

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."

"These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained."

"Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language."

"The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world."

"But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well."

"My parents have always had a great sense of humor. And I really appreciate good humor in songs, witty lyrics that sneak up on you and then you listen again, and say: 'That's so funny.' John Prine's songs have always had this really witty tone."

"No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters."

"Life in abundance comes only through great love."

"Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art."

"I can't begin to tell you how fulfilling the perennial nature of 'Elf' on television has been for me. It's great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor."

"A great artist is always before his time or behind it."

"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

"A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work."