Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

Genius is full of trash.

Herb Brooks

The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen,

Henry David Thoreau

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau

I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Henry David Thoreau

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Jill Scott

I do want love. Genuine love.

Jessica Hahn

Church is great, but I found my church here. Hugh Hefner has been nothing but a gentleman.

Jeremy Clarkson

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

Jiah Khan

I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Giuliano Amato

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Ignatius of Loyola

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

Ignatius of Loyola

God will not be outdone in generosity.

Hannah Arendt

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

James D. Watson

I am thrilled to see my genome.

James Branch Cabell

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Jake Shimabukuro

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Gertrude Stein

You are all a lost generation.

Jim Croce

Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius.

Jim Cummings

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Jeremy Rifkin

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

Jenny Holzer

A sense of timing is the mark of a genius.

Fred Rogers

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Frank Herbert

Madness in method, that's genius

George Henry Lewes

The public can only be really moved by what is genuine.

Gunter Grass

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

Howard Cosell

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

He and his team were perfect gentlemen and so respectful. He is young and I'm sure he didn't do anything out of disrespect. I feel that wholeheartedly.