Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop.

Martin Rees

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision.

General market sentiment remains quite positive, ... Of course, oil could be a spoiler if it moves higher.

Ray Thompson

Generally you think that all musicians are hardcore rockers or party-going lunatics, but that's not always the case, ... Nathan is a youth worship leader and a wonderful person.

Lance Armstrong

George is a nice guy, no doubt. He's learned that he can be a gentleman and still have a killer instinct. Me, I'm the opposite. I'm a jerk who has to work at being a gentleman. I've always loved to put the hurt on people.

Gentlemen, ... can I run something by you?

Bobby Jones

Gentleman Jim, It might have turned out differently, I don't know.

Thomas Jane

Generally I just look and see if it would be a movie that I would pay $7.00 to see... What is it, $9.00 now?... $9.00 to see.

Peter Capaldi

Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.

General Barker was a guy that was kind of larger than life.

General Adan is retiring next month and he is trying to get public attention.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

George Bernard Shaw

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

George Bernard Shaw

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

Between genius and talent there is the proportion of the whole to its part

Everything from roofs to hurricane panels and hurricane shutters and windows to generators and screen enclosures and on and on.

Even in early adulthood, men can't be told what to wear; they can only be subtly moved by example, encouragement, and a generally sophisticated atmosphere.

As the general search space has matured, we see vertical search as the next big opportunity.

Dick Gephardt

So this is what the lobbyists and other wealthy individuals got for their money. They get their overly generous share of the tax bill.

One gentleman was taken to the hospital by a friend. He got a little smoke inhalation.

One gentleman said it was his quest to have gooseberry pie at RAGBRAI. He said he didn't get any the other year until he was getting on the bus.

Yevgeny Primakov

Now a very important moment has come for U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to go there (Iraq),

Now, for the first time, there is a general apprehension for everyone.

Oil prices are slipping, and that's generally good news for the market.

Christian Camargo

Actors are the most generous people when it comes to sharing their technique. But if you grew up in a household of carpenters, and you're making a table, everyone would have a different way of doing it.

John Sherman Cooper

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

I wanted something in the hallway to generate an interest in art, while leaving a legacy of the eighth-graders.

Technological alliances like this generally don't produce visible results that quickly.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

Nick Schultz

It would still be a person. Like you would take out the gene for ADD, but it would still be a person. It's like taking medicine. It's not who you are.

The state has turned us into a generation of gamblers.