Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Francis Spufford

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Francis Schaeffer

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

Horatio Nelson

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horace Walpole

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Horace Mann

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

If he is smart, he will do this quickly, be generous and move on.

Joan Armatrading

If I'm at home and something comes I might try to write it down, but generally out and about I wouldn't write it down, I'd just hope I'd remember it.

Will Rogers

I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money