Famous Quotes

"In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are."

Gore Vidal on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Gore Vidal

• "It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

• "As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days."

• "Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age."

• "In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it."

• "Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith."