Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

John Greenleaf Whittier

God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

Bob Packwood

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

Billy Gibbons

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Bill Johnson

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

Edmond de Goncourt

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Dawn Powell

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

David Walliams

I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentleman.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

David Hume

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When I was on my way to the podium a gentleman stopped me and said I was as good a politician as I was an actor. What a cheap shot.

Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Beatrix Potter

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

Audrey Hepburn

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Eden Phillpotts

Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.

Edgar Degas

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Benjamin Haydon

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Carlos Fuentes

Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Aaron Yoo

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Charles Tupper

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

Charles de Gaulle

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Charles Dickens

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

Cheryl Richardson

Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Charlie Kaufman

The way I work is not the way that you work, and the whole point of any creative act is that. What I have to offer is me, what you have to offer is you, and if you offer yourself with authenticity and generosity I will be moved.

Bob Riley

Ladies and gentlemen: There can be no greater investment in Alabama's future than an investment in education.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Billy Wilder

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

Bill Maher

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.