Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Enzo Ferrari

The era of gentleman racing drivers is ended.

Christine Keeler

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Christie Hefner

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

Faith Baldwin

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

George Steiner

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Plimpton

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

George R. R. Martin

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

George R. R. Martin

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

George Carlin

E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

Fanny Burney

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

Ezra Pound

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Taft Benson

If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals - always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.

Francis Ford Coppola

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

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

Hilary Duff

I'm genuinely sorry that I upset her because I totally respect her and totally love her music.

Mike Birbiglia

I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can.

I'm generally positive about the market outlook next year, too.

I'm pretty in Cincinnati. I'm not pretty in a general sense.

Warren Spahn

I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius.

I'm interested in what the next generation is about.

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.