Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lloyd Alexander

My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.

Madeleine M. Kunin

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

T. S. Eliot

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

T. S. Eliot

Talent imitates, genius steals.

Sydney Biddle Barrows

The more you act like a lady, the more he'll act like a gentleman.

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Thomas Jefferson

One generation cannot bind another.

Thomas Jefferson

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Thomas Jefferson

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

Tania Raymonde

I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.

Tupac Shakur

Even the genius ask questions.

Van Wyck Brooks

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Robin Williams

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

Robert Walpole

IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected.

Robert Walpole

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.

Robert E. Lee

Every student must be a gentleman.

Robert E. Lee

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

Robert E. Lee

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times.

Rob Halford

I'll always have a totally open mind to endless possibilities. I want to do a dance album. Not Techno, but a record that's exclusively designed for people to dance to. That whole dance genre is kinda into its own world. I'd just like to get in there and mess around with that.

Richard P. Feynman

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Richelle Mead

Adrian, you're a genius.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

Richard Donner

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Thomas Starr King

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Russell Simmons

I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn't a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.

Sacha Guitry

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.

Rumi

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Solon

Consider your honour, as a gentleman, of more weight than an oath.

Steve Israel

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Rebecca Solnit

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

Rudyard Kipling

Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Samuel Johnson

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.