Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynsey Addario

Mortars and artillery don't discriminate against gender.

Louisa May Alcott

Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty.

John Gay

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Jonathan Brandis

I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.

Jonah Hill

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Josh Hopkins

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

Peter Medawar

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

Persis Khambatta

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Paulo Coelho

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Quentin Crisp

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

Quentin Tarantino

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

Quentin Tarantino

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick [Richard] Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

Philip Yancey

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

Pope John XXIII

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit.

Paul Di Filippo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Patton Oswalt

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Paul Valery

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Mel Brooks

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

Mary Pipher

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

Martin Amis

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

Pope John Paul II

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

Joan Didion

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

Erich Segal

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Erik Erikson

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Eric Fellner

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Emma Roberts

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

John Irving

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

John Mott

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

John Denham

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.