Famous Quotes & Sayings

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

Guillermo del Toro

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

Grace Paley

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Jack London

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Genius sees the answer before the question.

H. P. Lovecraft

I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste.

George Herbert

The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.

George Herbert

Hee that would be a Gentleman, let him goe to an assault.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history.

Gertrude Stein

You are all a lost generation.

Jim Croce

Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

Jim Cummings

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Barry Zito

I can never really get to a level that will satiate me. I think in general it's hard to find that. I can do it with my family.

Robert Greenblatt

Comedy is king for me; it's the genre that everyone loves.

Howard Cosell

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

He and his team were perfect gentlemen and so respectful. He is young and I'm sure he didn't do anything out of disrespect. I feel that wholeheartedly.

Arthur Hiller

He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Francis Spufford

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Francis Schaeffer

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

Horatio Nelson

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horace Walpole

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Horace Mann

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

If he is smart, he will do this quickly, be generous and move on.

Joan Armatrading

If I'm at home and something comes I might try to write it down, but generally out and about I wouldn't write it down, I'd just hope I'd remember it.

Will Rogers

I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money

John Abizaid

I do think there is a general lack of understanding in the United States as to how it's going,

Ron Perlman

I don't think anything is ever going to replace the human heart and what that generates in terms of performance.

Tom DeLay

I am a target, ladies and gentlemen, ... But I am nobody's victim.