O. T. Genasis Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
-
If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
-
You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
-
Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
-
Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
-
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
-
Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
-
I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.
-
I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
-
There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
-
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
-
Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
-
Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
-
Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.
-
I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
-
At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
-
Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.
-
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
-
Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.
-
Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
-
It was just my night. I got my knees under me and some things clicked on for me.
-
The Christian man must aim at that complete obedience to God in which life finds its highest happiness, its greatest good, its perfect consummation, its peace.
-
I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
-
I really don't care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.
