Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Madame de Stael

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Haruki Murakami

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

John Dryden

A happy genius is the gift of nature.

Louis Pasteur

My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

Louis Pasteur

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

John Ciardi

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

Luis Miguel

I'm dangerously generous.

You?d be surprised what kind of marketplace there is for gently used equipment.

Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching.

Matthew Arnold

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Maxim Gorky

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Max Beerbohm

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Max Brooks

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Marina Warner

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Maria Montessori

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

The generation that's 20 years old doesn't need the subtext of a sitcom,

James Franco

The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

Adam Cole

The general theme is one of risk aversion,

The general statement is 'You can't grow grapes in Wyoming. That's usually what you get.

The general sessions did a great job in presenting a top down view of the industry as a whole, managing to put all the pieces together in a perspective relative to each other.

David Sobel

The general sense is that with Gerald Solomon's retirement, a significant obstacle has been removed.

The general reaction I've received has been great. It has really been appreciated.

The general public will probably see it (Kelley) and wonder how we'll ever get it done, but it will be ready. Marshall is in better shape. It will be ready sooner.

The General Plan is supposed to be pretty sacred.

The general pitch of all of today's numbers is quite strong and that's something that we haven't seen for some time.

The general picture from the housing market has not changed,

The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

The general inflation situation and prospects are good,

The general good news is that it's another strong quarter.