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Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money. -- Gary Larson
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillips Brooks
I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now. -- William Kempe
Great moments are born from great opportunities. -- Herb Brooks
Great moments are born from great oppurtunities. -- Herb Brooks
The American story is a story of great moments and dreadful moments. -- Alexis Denisof
There have been so many great moments, and I feel so blessed every day. -- Vusi Mahlasela
There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them. -- Dan Jenkins
One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. -- Jon Anderson
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport. -- Jon Anderson
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto. -- Bono
The things that have taken place over my career have been unbelievable. I have a lot of great moments to cherish. -- Steve Largent
The three great moments of my life had to be the concerts of Ellington in 1938, Dizzy in '48, and Ella in '52. -- Boris Vian
Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people. -- James Salter
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen. -- Jennifer Aniston
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved. -- George Washington
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life. -- Vannevar Bush
When you think about Dada and the great moments in Modern Art, it's always the sense of when you're not sure that art is most likely to be occurring. -- Richard Phillips
When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. -- Boris Pasternak
a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own. -- Margaret Deland
It's been a rollercoaster ride. There have been some great moments and some low points... like when I was leaving Stax. That's when I actually thought of getting out of the business. -- William Bell
[Sex] is really awkward. You know you have expectations and then it's this great moment of connection and it's a surprise. But that's what so exciting about it is that sense of surprise. -- Joe Meno
I'm the leading scorer in the cup, and that's lovely, but don't forget this is also a great moment for the whole squad, when the two things coincide you can't ask for more. -- Alessandro Del Piero
There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script. -- James Wolk
The person of old had the same brilliance of mind that we assume we have now. But that which made a thing become manifest for the first time is our great moment of creative happening. -- Louis Kahn
When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives. -- Federico Fellini
The Fiesta Tour McDonald's exhibit is a one-of-a-kind compilation of items and great moments in Latin music history. Every item has a unique story, including the outfit which I wore during the 2008 Premios Juventud awards. -- Thalia
Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time. -- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Ending the slave trade was contrary to British economic interests. For all its limitations and hypocrisies - British slavery itself, of course, still continued to exist - I still think it was a great moment in human history. -- Henry Louis Gates
Raising Arizona' is maybe my favorite comedy of all time. What's great about it is that as slapstick as it gets, it has great moments of emotion and caring. Them bringing the baby back and Trey Wilson's character. I love that, man. -- Joe Carnahan
The great moment I think in human consciousness is when you realize that the object in front of you is perhaps not nameable or is new, it does not fit a stereotype, and so you need to reconfigure your whole structure of knowledge to account for it. -- W. J. T. Mitchell
I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there. -- Asif Ali Zardari
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.' -- Robert Fisk
This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever. -- Freya Stark
Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life. -- Delbert L. Stapley
It's seldom that you find great moments in television. Usually you remember - in 'Breaking Bad' or any of these other great shows - you remember situations or characters. Not moments. But I have to say, I can make the same argument for mainstream movies, which have bad narratives and also no memorable moments. -- Alfonso Cuaron
To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didn't have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless you're going to choreograph things yourself, you're at the service of someone else. -- Lorrie Moore
There are two things I enjoy most about my work. First, I get to work with interesting and enthusiastic people who are also fired up about science. Second, every once in a while I have moments in which I suddenly understand the solution to a problem that I've been working on - those are great moments. -- David J. Anderson
Great moments are born great oppurtunity -- Nikola Tesla
Great moments await around every corner. -- Richard DeVos
Pessimism does win us great happy moments. -- Max Beerbohm
All great adventures have moments that are really crap. -- Ellen Potter
There are lots of moments that are great for an actress. -- Ruth Wilson
Great photos of the great moments always give us a great joy! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours. -- Mark Twain
There are moments when great music can be the greatest service and charity. -- Michael Leunig
Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings. -- Bill Hybels
Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments. -- Jack Dorsey
Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up. -- Selenis Leyva
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time -- Margot Fonteyn
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time. -- Margot Fonteyn
I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it. -- Clint Eastwood
In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal. -- Douglas Adams
This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind. -- Mark Z. Danielewski
Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most. -- Allyson Felix
This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner. -- Richard DeVos
I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level. -- Clint Eastwood
In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great. -- Oscar Levant
There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past. -- Indira Gandhi
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet. -- John Green
God is the Great Engineer, creating circumstances to bring about moments in our lives of divine importance, leading us to divine appointments -- Oswald Chambers
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment. -- Bernardo Bertolucci
All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness. -- Walpola Rahula
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. Itâ??s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments. -- Alain de Botton
At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important. -- M. C. Escher
In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that i will come to no harm. -- Tahir Shah
The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art. -- Lorraine Toussaint
At times I come across works of mine which are soundly done and really in my style, and at such moments I find great solace. -- Camille Pissarro
I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments. -- Cinda Williams Chima
Store up reservoirs of calm and content and draw on them at later moments when the source isn't there, but the need is very great. -- Rupert Brooke
I think my life in general, like that of any human being, has highs and lows, has moments of great light and moments of great darkness. -- Thalia
My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low. -- Kandyse McClure
When I experience something or feel something, that's kind of transferred to the audience. There's a lot of great breakthrough moments that come out of that. -- Morgan Spurlock
That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring. -- Nick Willis
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer. -- Candice Millard
Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe. -- Denzel Washington
One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments. -- Roger Ebert
You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you. -- Don Shula
It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?" -- David Hare
There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another -- Kathleen Tessaro
One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved . -- Bill Hybels
The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because Iâ??ve certainly hit more than one bump, -- Alex Zanardi
Weâ??re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware â?? beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one. -- Kent Nerburn
Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay. -- Grant Wood
When I was a kid, the world was such a big place, and I had no idea that I would be afforded these great moments in between doing what I love to do. -- Robert Plant

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