It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
In 1980s, I discovered 'Late Night with David Letterman.' It was on one of the 13 cable TV channels. They didn't have… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
In a sense, I am achieving what I set out to do - to devote myself to Stephen, to give him the… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He's been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
I see these other actors come up with this tough-guy personas and now when they're on talk shows they're all... But that's… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than… — Norman Robert Campbell Copy Share Image
The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Have faith that your child's brain is an evolving planet that rotates at its own speed. It will naturally be attracted to… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
For me, prog rock has always been essentially British. It combines all our great and eccentric genius. We are not hung up… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
As I hope For quiet days, fair issue, and long life, With such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den, The most… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“ Robert Ingersoll 's character was as nearly perfect as it is possible for the character of mortal man to be... none… — Charles Spalding Thomas Copy Share Image
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as… — David Douglas Duncan Copy Share Image
“Leonardo had almost no schooling and could barely read Latin or do long division. His genius was of the type we can… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
