All Quotes

A futures contract is a derivative, but the futures exchange doesn't call them 'derivatives,' they call them 'futures.'
‐‐ Myron Scholes

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
‐‐ Joe Biden

A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth.
‐‐ Michael Kinsley

A game is defined by the players' strategy domains and payoff functions.
‐‐ Leonid Hurwicz

A game is like a mirror that allows you to look at yourself.
‐‐ Robert Kiyosaki

A game is not won until it is lost.
‐‐ David Pleat

A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.
‐‐ Marc Laidlaw

A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.
‐‐ Ali Smith

A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
‐‐ Haniel Long

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
‐‐ Roberto Burle Marx

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.
‐‐ Gertrude Jekyll

A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
‐‐ Luis Barragan

A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.
‐‐ Liberty Hyde Bailey

A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.
‐‐ Rene Redzepi

A gay man can be friends with a straight man. That can happen.
‐‐ Steve Guttenberg

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.
‐‐ Lorna Luft

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.
‐‐ John Hughes

A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
‐‐ Olivia Munn

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gender-equal society would be one where the word 'gender' does not exist: where everyone can be themselves.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
‐‐ Douglas MacArthur

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.
‐‐ Algernon Sidney

A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

A generation ago, or two, when there were three channels, plus PBS, and when you needed - when you needed 15 million people to make a living, the media could focus on the broad country. And most people had no choice about getting political information. It was there at 6:30 whether you wanted it or not.
‐‐ David Frum

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
‐‐ Kage Baker

A generation of Earth Days has conditioned millions of us to be green in our homes yet we must apply the same ethic to our politics if we want to save our planet and our democracy.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

A generation of people are being radicalised by the criminalisation of information sharing.
‐‐ Heather Brooke

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.
‐‐ Simon Schama

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.
‐‐ George Osborne

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
‐‐ Joey Lauren Adams

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.
‐‐ Jean Anouilh

A genocide in Africa has not received the same attention that genocide in Europe or genocide in Turkey or genocide in other part of the world. There is still this kind of basic discrimination against the African people and the African problems.
‐‐ Boutros Boutros-Ghali

A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
‐‐ George Herbert

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent.
‐‐ Lawrence G. Lovasik

A gentleman is any man who wouldn't hit a woman with his hat on.
‐‐ Fred Allen

A gentleman is never rude except on purpose - I can honestly be nasty sober, believe you me.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
‐‐ Lana Turner

A gentleman never talks about his tailor.
‐‐ Nick Cave

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
‐‐ Anna Howard Shaw

A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
‐‐ Frederick Douglass

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.
‐‐ Confucius

A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.
‐‐ Jose Marti

A genuinely democratic Iraq might well act as a fresh spur.
‐‐ Douglas Hurd

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda