“I think that's an additional tribute to him, that in a small district he was able to do something that stands out.”
John Ellis
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
Oscar Wilde
“[In tribute to his grandmother] She still talks to me now, only now she talks to me in my dreams. And I can't wait to go to sleep tonight because we have a lot to talk about. I love you.”
Jamie Foxx
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it”
Quentin Crisp
“[The] most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.”
George Steiner
