I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain’s greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive – and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger – or my own reputation. – Geoffrey Rush
I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions. – Deborah Sampson
Since I was a kid, I’d wake up every morning hearing a voice say, ‘You’re the greatest rapper ever.’ I’m trying to prove that voice right. – Danny Brown
To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term. – Dennis Prager
I’ve always said I’ve wanted to be around forever. I never wanted to be the latest, greatest thing. I want to be like Willie Nelson – touring when I’m 70. To do that, you can’t be the latest, greatest thing because those things fizzle out. – Gary Allan
China is one of the world’s greatest proliferators of weapons of mass destruction to these rogue nations. – Fred Thompson
‘Watchmen’ is not only the greatest comic ever written, it’s a really important work of fiction. – Gerard Way
As prime minister, I was the Israeli leader who walked the greatest distance in his offers to the Palestinians. – Ehud Barak
By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. – David Ricardo
The NSA has the greatest surveillance capabilities in American history… The real problem is that they’re using these capabilities to make us vulnerable. – Edward Snowden
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived…. His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America’s Schubert. – George Gershwin
Voting has not been tough for me, for the most part, because there’s guideposts about what will bring about the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people. – Michele Bachmann
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness. – Ellen G. White
By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. – Eliezer Yudkowsky
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film. – Nick Nolte
The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies. – Fay Weldon
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. – Francis Bacon
Music is part of history, and our history has lessons that cannot be separated from our greatest music. – Mstislav Rostropovich
This is a universal human dream – that brains, not brawn, will rule – and the fact that America has the world’s finest institutions of higher education may be our greatest single national asset. – David Ignatius
I like to think of the world’s greatest athlete coming up to bat against me – Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don’t care who it is – and I’m looking at him thinking, you have no chance. – David Cone
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn’t have a clue about women, but he sure could plot. – Donna Leon
There’s no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can’t quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease. – David Agus
Every company’s greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company. – Michael LeBoeuf
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops. – David F. Houston
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only to those with access to the world’s greatest libraries – indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need. – Peter Singer