#great

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy. ↗

— Michael Buble

#cool guy #diamond #did #entertainer #good

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

#comedians #customers #funny #great #had

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#great #law #most #most powerful #must

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#abuse #dangerous #greater #more

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#essential #expense #great #may #mere

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. ↗