Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Beckman

He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.

Minna Antrim

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius

Mike Kopp

He's a good coach. You know, you don't have to be a genius when you have 6-2 and 6-2 on the front. But the system he runs, he understands his strengths and stays within them. I think that says a lot about their program.

Lenny Simpson

He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playing great.

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Vincent Creel

He is going to be looked on as a genius for that.

Brad Pitt

He'll go for years on pulling off a prank, ... His genius in that one was not pulling a prank on me.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Samuel Johnson

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

John Dryden

There is a proud modesty in merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed.

Chanakya

Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

Tamsin Egerton

Some people who meet me might think I starve myself, because there's such an assumption that being thin involves putting yourself through torture and punishing your body, but I'm just naturally skinny - you should watch me demolish a ploughman's lunch.

George Pipas

Our base planning assumption was not predicated on unemployment going down,

Scott Skiles

I guess the assumption I'll go under is that we'll start the same way we did (Saturday) night.

Wilhelm Ostwald

The general assumption of coherence of the world, which as we know forms the basis of all science, provides the means to survey such types.

Christine Callies

This is only under the assumption that the full tax rate cuts go into effect.

Scott Jasek

This is my assumption. Someone came to steal the trailer and when they opened it realized, 'Oh, now I've got an Indy car. Now what?' So I'm going to make the assumption it's going to surface somewhere here in the next few days. But you never know.

Larry Klein

The base assumption for everyone is you're on your own for 72 hours.

Roy Blumberg

There's suddenly this new possibility that the Fed will tighten monetary policy again. Most people were going on the assumption that that was not going to happen.

Cody Acree

There was an assumption at the beginning of June that second-quarter sales of desktops and servers would be lethargic but momentum has built throughout the quarter. There were concerns that there would be lackluster spending by consumers and corporations because of high oil prices but it looks like things were probably normal or even better than normal.