Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's generating a huge portion of our tax revenues,

It's generally pretty vague. It could be 10 percent or more, but 10 percent or more of what?

It's a very genuine type of show. We have music that the world has never heard. We praise God in a very different way.

It's a very general threat, and out of normal operations, they notify all entities. We take it seriously, but there's not a specific threat.

It's been a general scheduling challenge. I'll leave it at that.

Dan Johnson

It's been our pitching staff keeping us in these games. We really haven't been able to generate much offense.

It's really great for those who live in retirement homes and want to save through the purchase of generic drugs.

It's obvious the House recognizes the serious difficulties with this whole approach. It would have shortchanged the municipalities, and it would have shortchanged the state's general fund, which are recipes for tax increases.

It looks like there has been little if any gene loss in our own species lineage in the last 6 million years.

Lois Lowry

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

Lloyd Alexander

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Madeleine M. Kunin

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Lynsey Addario

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

Louisa May Alcott

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

John Gay

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Jonathan Brandis

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

Jonah Hill

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Patton Oswalt

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Paul Valery

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Mel Brooks

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

Mary Pipher

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

Martin Amis

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

Pope John Paul II

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

Philippe Starck

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Pope Francis

When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure

Pope Francis

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Peter Medawar

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

Persis Khambatta

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Paulo Coelho

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Quentin Crisp

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

Quentin Tarantino

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.