Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Oliphant

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

Michael Jackson

I'm a gentleman, call me old fashioned if you want.

Michael Crichton

Geniuses never pay attention.

Mark Twain

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Nikki Sixx

We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

Nick Rahall

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

Mary MacLane

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Marvin Bower

Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.

Nicholas Sparks

There are no authors in my genre. No one is doing what I do.

Nicholas Sparks

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

John Green

And yes, again, that was it exactly. A retyper and not a writer. A prodigy and not a genius.

Ozzy Osbourne

I have a genuine love affair with my audience. When I'm on stage they're not privileged to see me. It's a privilege for me to see them.

P. G. Wodehouse

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Ovid

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

Marya Mannes

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Marshall McLuhan

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

Michel de Montaigne

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Marianne Williamson

My story has been the story of my generation.

Mark Leyner

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

Mario Benedetti

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Christina Hoff Sommers

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

Christina Ricci

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

Gertrude Stein

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Gertrude Stein

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

George Santayana

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is this : How can your life, the individual life, retain the highest value, the deepest significance? Only by living for the good of the rarest and most valuable specimens.

Neale Donald Walsch

Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.)

Miles Davis

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Mike Leigh

Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Joseph Addison

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Joseph Addison

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.

Joseph Addison

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.