For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I must have just dreamed that about Liverpool playing 3-4-3. What do people think that was, a bit of luck? A British… — Brendan Rodgers Copy Share Image
Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes… — Kendra Wilkinson Copy Share Image
That’s what I thought. When I looked that human in the face. I figured he was either a genius or crazy.” Artemis’s… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“No one is immune to failure. All have tasted the bitterness of defeat and disappointment. A warrior must not dwell on that… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
“The genius craves inspiration: she craves altered states and fresh perceptions. She will have them either through evolving closer to the divine… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
Problems in human engineering will receive during the coming years the same genius and attention which the nineteenth century gave to the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second.… — Tracii Guns Copy Share Image
I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may… — Isadora Duncan 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
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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