Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daisaku Ikeda

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

George Brett

Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'

Alex Lifeson

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

Alex Lifeson

Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

Alex Lifeson

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Anthony Horowitz

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.

Ariel Pink

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press.

Anne Wojcicki

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

We're the last generation that has these survivors pretty much.

The graphic is generating a lot of information, a lot of calls,

We are starting to see some genuine differentiation between the major players.

Bo Ryan

We are so generic in our first practice,

James Russell

We are seeing the passing of a generation of historians at UTC.

Billy Graham

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Victor Hugo

There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.

Ira Glass

I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.

Ira Glass

In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.

All I'm ever looking for in my work in general is honesty and truth and people being real to themselves.

Aretha Franklin

with all the other geniuses. I was mesmerized when I heard him live.

Yields are going to be rising in general and there's going to an unwinding of the flattening.

Diane Ackerman

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

Bill Laswell

I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic pop are experimenting with cliches. It's no less than I am experimenting with noise or unknown music - until you say, 'This is my song, or this is my composition' - it's all experimental, whether you like it or not.

There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Ben Mendelsohn

'Slow West' is a western, and it's sort of a twist on the genre stylistically, I think, from what I understand going in.

Imogen Poots

I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

Ian Schrager

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

Gerry Harvey

For me, anyone who is over 80, I generally sit down and have a chat to because he is over 80, and he is going OK.

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Benazir Bhutto

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.

Eden Sher

I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especially in Hollywood, but even in life.

Garth Nix

In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact.

Blake Shelton

I can't tell you what genre Maroon 5 is in. I don't know if they're rock or pop or alternative. I don't know what they are. I have a hard time separating that stuff. I just know what I like when I hear it.