Famous Quotes & Sayings

Persis Khambatta

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Paulo Coelho

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Quentin Crisp

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

Quentin Tarantino

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

Quentin Tarantino

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick [Richard] Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

Philip Yancey

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

Pope John XXIII

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit.

Richard Donner

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Thomas Starr King

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Roberto Benigni

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Robert Schumann

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Samuel Johnson

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Samuel Johnson

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

Richard M. Nixon

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Richard L. Evans

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

Tupac Shakur

Even a genius has his questions.

Tupac Shakur

Even the genius ask questions.

Van Wyck Brooks

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Rebecca Solnit

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

Rudyard Kipling

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Samuel Johnson

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

Ruth Ozeki

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Rufus Wainwright

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

Ronald Reagan

When you see all that rhetorical smoke billowing up from the Democrats, well ladies and gentleman, I'd follow the example of their nominee; don't inhale.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

William Hogarth

I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Warren Buffett

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

William Blake

God is the poetic genius in each of us.