All Quotes

The genre of narrative business books that I love so much - the ones that have a you-are-there quality - was invented, or so it is said, in 1982 by David McClintick, who wrote 'Indecent Exposure,' a rollicking good read about a Hollywood scandal and the ultimate boardroom power struggle at Columbia Pictures.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

The genre of science fiction is a fun house, an amusement park ride, but it's also a problem. The question that's always being indirectly asked is this: 'Just who do we think we are and, further, who do we want to be?'
‐‐ Douglas Lain

The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
‐‐ Emile Hirsch

The genres of the fantastic and the grotesque are far more interesting to me than most mnemonic fiction.
‐‐ Ellen Datlow

The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was the best creature in the world.
‐‐ Charles Perrault

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.
‐‐ Fisher Ames

The Gentlemen of England serve under the greatest cad in Europe.
‐‐ John Burns

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights.
‐‐ Michael Dickinson

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
‐‐ Paul D. Boyer

The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
‐‐ Evangelista Torricelli

The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!
‐‐ Lady Gregory

The Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail is unlike any other performance venue in the world, set with mountains and trees as a backdrop.
‐‐ Damian Woetzel

The German Air Force was not sufficient to protect the sea crossing on its own. While the leading part of the forces might have landed, there was the danger that they might be cut off from supplies and reinforcements.
‐‐ Gerd von Rundstedt

The German debt to the Jewish people can never end, not in this generation and not in any other.
‐‐ Menachem Begin

The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
‐‐ Galeazzo Ciano

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
‐‐ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The German Emperor is ageing me; he is like a battleship with steam up and screws going, but with no rudder, and he will run into something some day and cause a catastrophe.
‐‐ Edward Grey

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably.
‐‐ James Laughlin

The German future lies in the hands of our Fuehrer.
‐‐ Hjalmar Schacht

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

The German mass murder of the Jews... brought my Jewishness to the surface.
‐‐ Ben Hecht

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
‐‐ Clifton Fadiman

The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
‐‐ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.
‐‐ Alfred Rosenberg

The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.
‐‐ James F. Byrnes

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

The German public knows me quite well. I have been in their kitchens and living rooms for years.
‐‐ Helmut Schmidt

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.
‐‐ Henri Pirenne

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
‐‐ Henri Pirenne

The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters.
‐‐ Donna Leon

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
‐‐ Marlene Dietrich

The Germans are clear about what they do - cars and machine tools; the Japanese are clear about what they do - electronics; the Chinese are clear about what they do - they're the workshop of the world.
‐‐ Evan Davis

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
‐‐ Bayard Taylor

The Germans have done wonderful work. Not long ago, a German battle group battalion conducted a very impressive counterinsurgency operation in a portion of Baghlan province. I think these are the first counterinsurgency operations conducted by any German element after World War II. And they did a very impressive job.
‐‐ David Petraeus

The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.
‐‐ Michael Feinstein

The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.
‐‐ Richard Mille

The Getty family has been fully supportive throughout this situation, and for that, I am very grateful.
‐‐ Gordon Getty

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
‐‐ Kate O'Mara

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.
‐‐ Richard J. Needham

The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
‐‐ Edith Widder

The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.
‐‐ David Grann

The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.
‐‐ Ron Fairly

The Giants are usually described as rag tag, kind of a great garage sale team, and the Democrats are described as the Mommies to the Republican Daddies; and everyone hates the mommies, but wait, wait - I didn't intend to get into the pathos and thrill of being a Democratic Giants fan.
‐‐ Anne Lamott