Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Genius is fostered by industry.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Generosity should never exceed ability.

Kelly Clarkson

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

Margaret Thatcher

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

Margaret Deland

You can't have genius without patience.

Rob Blake

That second period, as much time as we spent in our own zone, it was tough to generate things.

That money would have come out of our general fund, ... That's a lot of books.

Elia Kazan

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

Barbara Eden

If gentlemen prefer blondes then I'm a blonde that prefers gentlemen.

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.

Pope John Paul II

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

Philippe Starck

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Pope Francis

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

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

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.

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Terry Pratchett

Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum amount of moo.

Terence McKenna

What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

Ted McGinley

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is the power to labor better and more availably. Deserve thy genius: exalt it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Genius is power, talent is applicability.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We sometimes meet an original gentleman, who, if manners had not existed, would have invented them.