Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Hamilton

I do not think it for the interest of the general government itself, and still less of the union at large, that the state governments should be so little respected as they have been.

I always wanted to be a general manager.

George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

He was the greatest in history and to get a look at his genetic material will be pretty amazing,

Yasser Arafat

He was the first U.S. president to say such a statement before the general assembly.

James Whistler

Had silicon been a gas, I would have been a major general

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

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.

Robert E. Lee

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

Richelle Mead

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

Romola Garai

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Troy Polamalu

I have developed a Samoan mentality. You have to be a gentleman everywhere but on the field.

Rex Stout

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Woody Allen

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

William Winwood Reade

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

William Shirley

The meanest inhabitants by their constant attendance generally form the majority and outvote the gentlemen, merchants and all the better Inhabitants!

William Shenstone

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

William Gilmore Simms

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Sarah Brightman

It's in everyone's best interest to help close the gender gap in the sciences.

Samuel Smiles

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Richard M. Nixon

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Tupac Shakur

Even a genius has his questions.

Tupac Shakur

Even the genius ask questions.

Van Wyck Brooks

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Robert Walpole

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Robert Schumann

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Samuel Johnson

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Samuel Johnson

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

William Hogarth

I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.