Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karen Armstrong

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life

Katharine Graham

So few grown women like their lives.

Joseph Haydn

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

Leonard Cohen

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

Kwame Nkrumah

Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism, just as feudalism is development by refinement from slavery . Capitalism is but the gentlemen's method of slavery.

John Keegan

If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.

John Keats

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

Julianna Baggott

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

Joshua Reynolds

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Kabir Bedi

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Otto Weininger

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Otto Weininger

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Otto Weininger

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Otto Weininger

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Ouida

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Oscar Nunez

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

Oscar Wilde

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Kanye West

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

Paul Di Filippo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Martin Luther

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Nick Cave

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Nancy Allen

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

Missy Elliot

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

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.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Julia Quinn

Nothing like trapping the gentlemen where they couldn't get away.

Little Richard

I'm very much a gentleman in what I do.

Nelly Furtado

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Rachel Nichols

One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.