Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

There are some singers that know exactly when to go, and others hang on much too long and that is the same, that is the same with judges.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he’s terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he’s a terrific actor.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

It’s been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.

I think any activity you have your kids in, you’re all trying to live vicariously through them. And you’re jealous of the kid that’s naturally more talented or has the facility, the body, the genes, or the God-given talent. People get jealous of that.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

The first rap CD that I had, it was so different for me. The energy, the wordplay, all that caught my attention, and I liked it.

It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.

Never take anything for granted.

In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball’s different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There’s a lot of great individual talent.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

On one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world’s first ‚space cheese.‘ It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.

My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it’s about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn’t. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don’t take what they have for granted.

From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

I’ve been in the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus since I was 8.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.