To be honest I don't think I was any great shakes as a theatre actor because everything I was doing was really small in size - intimate.
Robert Carlyle
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight... →
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.