Famous Quotes

"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man."

James Dean 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 James Dean

• "Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have."

• "I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."

• "If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man."

• "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

• "There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning."