Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Vance

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Christopher Hitchens

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Gary Zukav

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

Jason Mraz

I'm trying to be more of a gentleman.

Evgeny Morozov

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

Ernest Hemingway

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ernest Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Fanny Burney

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

Ezra Pound

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Taft Benson

If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals - always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.

Francis Ford Coppola

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

George Santayana

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me.

Faith Baldwin

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

George Steiner

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

George Plimpton

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

George R. R. Martin

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

George R. R. Martin

Tyrion: My gentle sister seems to have mistaken me for Ned Stark. Bronn: I hear he was taller. Tyrion: Not after Joff took off his head.

George Carlin

E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

Fiona Shaw

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

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 ...

George Eliot

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

Christine Keeler

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

Christie Hefner

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

J. C. Ryle

If we would know whether our faith is genuine, we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.

Before Mr. Spencer unveils his grand plan for winning the general election, he should make sure he gets there first.