Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Douglas

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry,

Ravi Zacharias

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be here is immense.

Michael Vaughan

AB de Villiers is the definition of a Cricketing Genius

Michael Porter

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

Seth Godin

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Seth Godin

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Seth Godin

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Seth Godin

Be genuine. Be remarkable. Be worth connecting with.

Ray Charles

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

Tom Allen

The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

Todd Rokita

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

Simon Wiesenthal

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Melanie Fiona

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

Noel Gallagher

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

Ninette de Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Ninette de Valois

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

Mitch Albom

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...

Miguel de Cervantes

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

Neil Innes

Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.

John Wesley

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

John S. Watson

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

John Stott

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

John Stott

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

Theodore White

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Thelonious Monk

Everyone is a genius at being themselves

Thelonious Monk

A genius is the one most like himself.

Margaret Mead

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Margaret Fuller

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

Marcus Brigstocke

Jim Henson was an absolute genius.

Marcus Buckingham

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.