Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edward Kennedy

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

Benjamin Franklin

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin

I fully agree with General Washington, that we must protect this young nation from an insidious influence and impenetration. The menace, gentlemen, is the Jews.

Benjamin Franklin

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

Arthur Balfour

I do not stare at a gentleman in distress.

bell hooks

Patriarchy has no gender.

Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

And though it is much to be a nobleman, it is more to be a gentleman.

Dean Koontz

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Dean Koontz

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Cobi Jones

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

Claire Messud

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Elia Kazan

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

B. C. Forbes

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

Barbara Eden

If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.

Avi Rubin

As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.

Conrad Black

There are some people whose opinion I value and respect and it would be very bothersome if I forfeited their respect. But the general public? I'm not preoccupied with the opinions of others.

John Ortberg

The only true and lasting inspiration for life is genuine love for God, and submitted gratitude that I get to be a part of the redemptive quest.

There are generous people in this community. We have a pretty tight application process, we want to know where our money's going.

Gina Holden

My brother is my go-to with scripts, especially when we're talking genre pieces, because I want to make sure that it's legit. I can love it, but then I pass stuff on to him.