Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Fichtner

What I truly get excited about is not the genre of a movie or the size of a part - it's character. I like to find characters.

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Cheyenne Jackson

I'd love for people to accept me just as me, but I know that I generate a strong response; I always have - my name, my looks, my size.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Ellen Key

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

Adam Smith

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound

Adam Smith

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

Ada Lovelace

The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.

Alessandro Del Piero

A true gentleman never leaves his lady.

Aleister Crowley

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

Albert Einstein

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

Albert Einstein

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Albert Einstein

There's a genius in all of us.

Albert Einstein

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

Albert Einstein

Genius simply cannot be reduced to a set of rules for anyone to follow.

Albert Einstein

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

We do archive medical records and things of that nature that are required by law. But in terms of general data, e-mail, it's not as extensive.

We don't know how much milk is too much for women with genetic predisposition.

Jeff Carter

We want to make sure it's a positive thing. In general I think a good thing is happening.

We are moved by the community's overwhelming generosity to support hurricane victims.

Abigail Adams

These are the times when a genius wants to live.

Rudolph Valentino

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

Simon Van Booy

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

The demographic of that meeting was pretty predictable. When I went to my first general managers' meetings in 1991, the demographics were not much different than they are today.

James L. Brooks

I have a rule in research: The third time you hear something, it's generally true.

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Susan Griffin

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Susan Isaacs

I have such admiration for Whoopi Goldberg as an actress and a general smart person.

Seinabo Sey

At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.

Thalia

A lot of singers find a musical genre people like and stick with it. That's being a conformist. I sing ballads, rock, salsa, rap.

Tyler Oakley

I'm a genuine lover of music. I've always watched the Grammys from home.

Victor Grignard

Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.