Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Arthur Hiller

He originally wrote Love Story as a movie, but turned it into a novel which was published just before the film went into general release.

James Gleick

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

Stjepan Hauser

Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe.

Iris Murdoch

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

James Buchanan

I have gone wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any of them.

Isaac Disraeli

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

Francis Spufford

God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.

Francis Schaeffer

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

Horatio Nelson

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.

Horace Walpole

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Horace Mann

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

If he is smart, he will do this quickly, be generous and move on.

Gioachino Rossini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Giorgio Moroder

What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.

Geraldo Rivera

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Geraldo Rivera

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

J. K. Rowling

McLaggen makes Grawp look like a gentleman.

J. K. Rowling

HARRY, THIS IS NO TIME TO BE A GENTLEMAN!" Wood roared as Harry swerved to avoid collision. "KNOCK HER OFF HER BROOM IF YOU HAVE TO!

Itzhak Perlman

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

H. L. Mencken

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

H. L. Mencken

The objection to a Communist always resolves itself into the fact that he is not a gentleman.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

Guillermo del Toro

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

Grace Paley

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.