#great men

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#cinema #copying #done #establishing #first

Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#great #great man #great men #greatness #his

First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#coast guard #commend #first #great #great men

Produce great men, the rest follows. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#great #great men #men #produce #rest

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#books #chiefly #enjoy #give #great

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#detecting #exact #great #great men #greatness

Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#achieved #determined #ever #great #great men

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#alone #also #because #built #create

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. ↗

— Yousuf Karsh

#great men #men #quality #shared #single

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#great men #lift #live #men #people