Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lois Lowry

I prefer to surprise myself as I'm writing. I'm not interested in it if I already know where it's going. So I have only the most general sense of what I'm doing when I start a story. I sometimes have a destination in mind, but how the story is going to go from Point A to Point Z is something I make up as I go along.

Daddy Yankee

In the past year we didn't have a true genre that speaks for the Latino's. Right now we have that with the reggaetone,

Haley Barbour

In the most obvious sense, if there's just one fund, that's simpler for everybody, ... But at the same time, when people are being incredibly generous and trying hard to help, my hat's off to them.

Darren Star

In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

Chris Eigeman

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

James Blake

I generally try to worry about my side of the court, the things I can control. I feel like I've done a much better job of that now, having kind of different perspective on the game.

Bruce Schneier

I generally think the terrorists do something new each time. It is a big hole in the system.

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Jenny Shipley

In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender - and increasingly racial - mix. It's not about being politically correct; it's just who we are.

Janet Flanner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Euripides

To generous souls every task is noble.

Jeremy Rifkin

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

Jenny Holzer

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

Fred Rogers

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Frank Herbert

Madness in method, that's genius

George Henry Lewes

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

Gunter Grass

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

Jean de la Bruyere

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

Jean Anouilh

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Jean Baudrillard

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Moe Howard

Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!

Mindy Kaling

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

Miguel

I feel like R&B as a genre has become a caricature of itself.

Mika

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

Karl Marx

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Jules Verne

I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

Julia Child

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

King James I

I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.

Myles Munroe

You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.

Itzhak Perlman

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

H. L. Mencken

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

H. L. Mencken

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.