Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Rothfuss

I have had a few gentlemen let me know they find my manly beardiness somewhat alluring. Never any ladies though.

Leopold Von Ranke

Every generation is equidistant from God.

Paul Cezanne

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

Oscar Wilde

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

Oscar Wilde

Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

Oscar Wilde

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

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!

Murray Kempton

To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

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.

Kenneth Koch

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

There's a movie in that story. Three geniuses having explosions.

At General Motors, it is going to have to be all in.

Charles Kennedy

As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.

Denis Diderot

A sketch is generally more spirited than a picture,

As you generate more sales tax, you can take some of that back into the machine and grow what you have.

Michael Douglas

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry,

Ravi Zacharias

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be here is immense.

Michael Vaughan

AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius