Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trip Hawkins

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

Rex Stout

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

Madame de Stael

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Haruki Murakami

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

Kabir Bedi

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Otto Weininger

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Otto Weininger

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Otto Weininger

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Otto Weininger

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Ouida

The scorn of genius is the most arrogant and the most boundless of all scorn.

Oscar Nunez

Ricky Gervais is a genius.

Oscar Wilde

Talent borrows, genius steals!

Kanye West

My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.

William Faulkner

A gentleman can live through anything.

Ronald Reagan

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

Will Rogers

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

Zach Braff

It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty.

Ze Frank

Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Zach Braff

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Samuel Johnson

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Samuel Johnson

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

William Hogarth

I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Warren Buffett

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

William Blake

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

Werner Erhard

I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.

William Godwin

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

William Arthur Ward

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.

Wilfrid Sheed

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Walter Lippmann

Genius sees the dynamic purpose first, find reasons afterward.

Voltaire

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Voltaire

The most amazing and effective inventions are not those which do most honour to the human genius.