Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

Maurice Baring

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Matt LeBlanc

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

Matthew Arnold

Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized by energy may well be imminent in poetry - and we have Shakespeare.

Maxim Gorky

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Max Beerbohm

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

Max Brooks

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Marina Warner

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Maria Montessori

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

Plato

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

John Travolta

The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

Martin Luther

The truth is mightier than eloquence, the Spirit greater than genius, faith more than education.

Nick Cave

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.

Nancy Allen

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

Missy Elliot

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

Philip Sidney

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

Petra Kelly

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Pharrell Williams

Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Peter Drucker

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

Paulo Coelho

This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.' 'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded. 'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.

Martin Scorsese

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Nicolas Chamfort

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Nora Roberts

I read a lot - and I read a variety of genres.

Nat King Cole

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Myrna Loy

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.

Millard Fuller

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Mignon McLaughlin

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Johnny Marr

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

John Ruskin

A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.

John Ruskin

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

Marianne Williamson

My story has been the story of my generation.

Mark Leyner

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

Mario Benedetti

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.