(398 quotes found)
“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”
Oscar Wilde
“[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
“In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.”
Thurgood Marshall
“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”
Fulton J. Sheen
“Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute”
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
“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
“[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
“The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it”
Quentin Crisp
“To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.”
“Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.”
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