Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonah Hill

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Josh Hopkins

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

James Lipton

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

Joan Didion

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Erich Segal

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Erik Erikson

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Eric Fellner

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Emma Roberts

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

John Irving

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

John Mott

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

John Denham

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

John Dewey

All genuine education comes about through experience.

John Dewey

All genuine learning comes through experience.

Joan Miro

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.

George Leonard

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Garrett Hardin

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Livy

A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.

Lynn Abbey

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Lord Chesterfield

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

Madame de Stael

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Jo Coudert

Self-affirmation cannot be found in love; it is a prior condition of genuine love.

Jo Brand

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Jo Brand

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

Jimmy Carter

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

George Santayana

Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; their reasons are always different.

Jack Hanna

The L.A. Zoo is a respected institution, the general manager is highly thought of, the L.A. Zoo is one of the top zoos in the world,

W. S. Gilbert

The list of genes that will come out of the genome project will be the tool that turns our questions into global ones.

The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.

James St. James

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

James Mackintosh

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another.

All the pressures are related to development. More people need more water. They generate more water. They generate more storm water. All of those things can be managed. All of those problems have solutions, but some ways are better than others.

All the ideals which men generally think are realities, you have learned to see through; you have learned that they are your ideals.