Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gertrude Stein

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Gertrude Stein

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Gretchen Rubin

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Georgette Heyer

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Horace

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Herbie Hancock

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

Herbert Spencer

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

Herman Melville

Genius is full of trash.

Herb Brooks

The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen,

Henry David Thoreau

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Henry David Thoreau

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Jill Scott

I do want love. Genuine love.

Jessica Hahn

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Jeremy Clarkson

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

Ernest Hemingway

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ernest Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Fiona Shaw

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Henry Louis Gates

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

Catharine MacKinnon

Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?

George Eliot

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...

George Eliot

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

James D. Watson

I am thrilled to see my genome.

James Branch Cabell

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Jake Shimabukuro

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Jacques Audiard

What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

James Buchanan

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

Isaac Disraeli

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.