In the great debate that has raged for centuries about what, if anything, happens to you after death, be it heaven, hell, purgatory or extinction, one thing has never been in doubt - that you would at least know the answer when you were dead. - Douglas Adams I wasn't a great debater. - Jack Kemp Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines. - Dick Morris The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point. - John Negroponte

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. - William Barclay I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision - Carl Sandburg Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore. - Rudyard Kipling These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. - Winston Churchill For everyone, there are those moments when you have great days with someone you wouldn't expect to. Then you have to go back to your real lives, but it makes an impression on you. - Sofia Coppola I've spent many birthdays on a movie set, all great days. - Tom Cruise I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before ...

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. - John Corigliano The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. - Ernest Newman I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little. - Maurice Ravel

I am tempted to think that to be despised by her sex is a very great compliment to a woman. - Margaret Atwood I've been sampled so much and I'm glad it's happened, it's a great compliment. - Roy Ayers It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen. - Lara Flynn Boyle A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. - Glenn Hughes The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment. - Julia Louisdreyfus The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one. - Vanessa Mae T...

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company. - Jim Barksdale To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. - Carly Fiorina To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader. - Howard Schultz If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company. - Vandana Shiva Before you can be effective in communication with ANYONE else, you must know who YOU are. It begins with you. Believe me when I say, I don't need anyone's approval in this classroom... I'm great company for myself. Me, myself, and I... we laugh a lot. (Said on the first week of class each phase, somewhat rewording each time, but the gist is always there). - Dacia Wilkinson

Let's face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers. - Jack Black I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian. - Larry David I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure. - Leila Josefowicz It takes many years to be a great comedian. - Don Rickles Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken. - Joe Rogan Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody. - Florenz Ziegfeld

It's a market economy. Apparently the demand for great coaches exceeds the supply, so of course the price of good coaches is going to be high. - Michael Gartner Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice. - Kristi Yamaguchi

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it. - D L Hughley I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em. - Ron White

Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts - Jim Davis I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me. - Thomas Keller You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books. - Thomas Keller I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you. - Jacques Pepin All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first. - Jacques Pepin Probably a mistake, you know, that people make in America, to think that all great chefs are a male... I'm still the only male in the family who went into that business. - Jacques Pepin If you want to become a...

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are. - Muhammad Ali The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him. - Pancho Gonzales I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. - Jude Law Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are. - Nancy Lopez There have been great champions in every generation. - Andy Roddick The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat. - Sam S...

Enemy-occupied territory-that is what the world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. - C S Lewis Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage. - C S Lewis Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out. - Rosser Reeves

As the great British comedian Spike Milligan once said: "Everybody got to be somewhere".. - Jack Eason I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations. - Stephen Fry There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention. - Bill Pullman And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well. - Lord Robertson I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writer...

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role. - Dean Acheson We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations. - Thomas Jefferson Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe. - Ahmed Ben Bella George: [On getting the M.B.E.] 'After all we did for Great Britain, selling all that corduroy and making it swing, they gave us that bloody old leather medal with wooden string through it. But my initial reaction was, 'Oh, how nice, how nice.' And John's was, 'How nice, how nice. - George Harrison With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has pass...

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. - Catharine Beecher How immensely the world is simplified when tested for its worthiness of destruction. This is the great bond embracing and unifying all that exists. - Walter Benjamin Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust. - Jonathan Brown

Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what is now called Cooktown for nearly two months while making repairs. Then they sailed south, where Cook claimed the east coast of Australia as British territory. - Julie Murphy The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true. - Campbell Newman My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? - Bruce Sterling

Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that. - Eric Heiden I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. - George J Mitchell Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes. - Arlen Specter But as much as I am personally proud for winning five championships, I'm equally proud just being part of a women's division that has gotten so much better with all these great athletes here. - Trish Stratus That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection. - Armstrong Williams

My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. - Billie Joe Armstrong I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete. - Usain Bolt There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is. - Bill Bradley We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a great entertainer, and that wasn't it either. I'm going to be an American Citizen. First class. - Dick Gregory Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that. - Eric Heiden People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit. - Jackie Joynerkersee I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. - George J Mitchell Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. - Bill Russell...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - Gilbert K Chesterton From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician. - James Jeans All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. - Philip Johnson There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. - Edwin Lutyens A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. - Frank Lloyd Wright Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. - Frank Lloyd Wright

Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive. - Arthur Erickson A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? - Vera Nazarian

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process. - Bruce Babbitt Labour day is a great American holiday that people celebrate by going out and buying products made in China - David Letterman The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country. - Jorge Luis Borges Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it. - Dan Quayle The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. - Ty Cobb Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease. - John Corry She was in a difficult...