Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Carradine

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.

Julian Barnes

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Julian Barnes

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Kim Hunter

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

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.

James Gleick

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

Stjepan Hauser

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

Iris Murdoch

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

Gioachino Rossini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Giorgio Moroder

What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.

Geraldo Rivera

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Geraldo Rivera

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

J. K. Rowling

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

J. K. Rowling

HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!

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.

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.