Jean Genet Famous Quotes
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man.
Jean Genet Quotations
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
Joe Moore
"There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice."
Jay Leno
"Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break."
Sara Teasdale
"In the 1940s a survey listed the top seven discipline problems in public schools talking, chewing gum, making noise, running in the halls, getting out of turn in line, wearing improper clothes, not putting paper in wastebaskets. A 1980s survey lists these top seven drug abuse, alcohol abuse, pregnancy, suicide, rape, robbery, assault. (Arson, gang warfare and venereal disease are also-rans.)"
George Will
"Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."
Johann von Goethe
"Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here."
Golda Meir
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda it is a form of truth.
John F Kennedy
"Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart-even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in mother's best clothes."
Alan Marshall Beck
"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp."
Marjorie Holmes
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
Clifton Paul Fadiman