Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Louis Gates

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

George Eliot

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

James Cash Penney

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Geneva was ready and hungry for us. They just jumped on top of us real quick.

Gentlemen, ... can I run something by you?

Hannah More

Gentleness is the outgrowth of benignity.

Mike Conway

He's the team. When he bowls, he generates the team.

Horror is one of those genres that have a seemingly inexhaustible supply of audience. And this year there has been a preponderance of ones that have done well.

James Blake

He's really a true gentleman, ... one of the friendliest guys in the locker room. ... He's someone that you can tell your kids to look up to and be proud of it.

Mental preparation is key. I don't think it's a gender thing. It is a lot of pressure for these kids to be out there. If you put yourself in that situation as an adult, it's a lot of pressure. Kids think about 'What if I miss?' That's hard.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

John Updike

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

None of us looked at it as a gender thing.

Herb Kohl

Larry has done a good job as our general manager,

Howard Dean

Some of the generals have said we can withdraw some of the troops. ... We have others saying, we're not going to leave. These people do not know what they are doing,

Crystal Bowersox

My music is pretty versatile; I have a lot of genres and styles. I don't think I should be pigeonholed into one thing. So we'll see where my career goes.

My wife and I put (solar panels) on our roof and that generates some, though not all, of our power.

I'm still reasonably optimistic that we will perhaps have a second round of Geneva talks.

Bill Cosby

YOU are a genius!... and I am a genius because I married you.

Margaret had close links with Geneva where she had spent some years as a student while her parents had been wardens of the Quaker Hostel there and where she had gone back as secretary to Gilbert Murray.

Gillian Armstrong

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

We don't want to overwhelm students. We just want them to know what it's about and give them general ideas on how to make it happen.

Jerry Falwell

I think he is genuinely a state's righter -- and so am I.

Bill Belichick

I think, for the most part, you're looking at players who are in roles, or situations, as probably being the swing guys on those numbers. I don't know if the geniuses referred to that or not. Probably not,

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

James Marsden

You can find all types of men anywhere, but a smart man will always make you feel important and understood. And a woman can always tell when a man does it genuinely and effortlessly.

Fulton J. Sheen

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Christina Hoff Sommers

So far there has been little discussion among gender scholars about the need to engage with skeptics. They tend to view skeptics and dissenters as cranks.

Ignatius of Loyola

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.