Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction.

Amy Lowell

The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.

Allen Ginsberg

My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.

Anthony Jeselnik

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

Amanda Burton

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

Alphonse de Lamartine

A woman's strength is most potent when robed in gentleness.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is for truth that God created genius.

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.

Alexander Herzen

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

What it means right now is that Greenland is producing 20 percent of the sea rise. We think that contribution will increase from generation to generation.

Alexander Pope

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Alexander Pope

Consult the Genius of the Place in all.

E. O. Wilson

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

Don Herold

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

Dylan O'Brien

You don't disrupt genius at work.

Dylan Thomas

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Douglas Booth

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

Dorothy Dunnett

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

Donald Miller

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

Claudia Jones

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

Dalai Lama

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

Chuck Palahniuk

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Christopher Parker

I'm not confident with the ladies. I can't just ask someone out in a club. I'd like to say I'm a gentleman.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

Anita Loos

Gentlemen prefer blondes.

Anita Loos

It isn't that gentlemen really prefer blondes, it's just that we look dumber.