Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

Claire Danes

I am not a genius. But I am nerdy.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

Conor McPherson

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

Daniel Defoe

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Dan Brown

genius accepts genius unconditionally

Don Herold

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

Dylan O'Brien

You don't disrupt genius at work.

Dylan Thomas

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

All generalizations are inaccurate, including this one.

Douglas Booth

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

Doris Lessing

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Donna Tartt

Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.

Donald Glover

Dress like a gentleman, but my mouth is never civilized.

Cris Judd

I'm really influenced by Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.

Craig Venter

We have learned nothing from the genome.

Claude Debussy

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Clive Davis

It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

Douglas Coupland

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

Ann Patchett

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Chuck Palahniuk

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Christopher Parker

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

Anita Loos

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Anita Loos

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.

Anita Loos

Gentlemen prefer blondes... but gentlemen marry brunettes.

Andre Maurois

A gentleman is never in a hurry.

Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

Ambrose Bierce

Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Ambrose Bierce

Honorable, adj.: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.".

Ambrose Bierce

PRIMATE, n. The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

Ambrose Bierce

There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only.