#great man

By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#called #character #deserves #earns #gifts

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#childlike #flight #giants #great #great man

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#eminent #great #great man #man #ready

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

#between #bridge #dead #death #gap

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabic #became #country #distrusted #european

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#good #great #great man #hitler #jews

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works. ↗

— Robert Caro

#being #biographies #book #books #doing

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#behind #every #eyes #great #great man

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. ↗

— Diane Keaton

#directing #great #great man #i #man

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#contempt #great #great art #great man #man