Famous Quotes & Sayings

Werner Erhard

I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Goldwyn

Gentlemen, I want you to know that I am not always right, but I am never wrong.

Salvador Dali

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

W. H. Auden

The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

William Cowper

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

Valerie Solanas

Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love.

William Godwin

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

William Arthur Ward

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.

Wilfrid Sheed

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Tim Walz

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.

Thomas Love Peacock

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Thomas Kinkade

The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.

Thomas Bangalter

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Russell Simmons

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

Sacha Guitry

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

Rumi

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Solon

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

Steve Israel

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Stephen Sondheim

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Phil Anselmo

Music is there for us to explore. To intentionally limit yourself to one, two, or three genres is limitation at its worst. Music is huge; its a gigantic history lesson, and if you are true music fan or a musician, you should explore it. Its all right there in front of us.

Rabindranath Tagore

All that is not given is lost.

Terence McKenna

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

Ted McGinley

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius Borrows nobly.