Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Plot involves fragmentary reality, and it might involve composite reality. Fragmentary reality is the view of the individual. Composite reality is the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
“People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ''Why has nobody… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people… — Waka Flocka Flame Copy Share Image
I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to compare myself to David Byrne whom I consider a genius, but what I think what we have in… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Well, I believe there are very practical answers to what makes a genius tick. I believe there are principles that we can… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
There's pressure to come up with something genius every time. I feel like I keep letting myself down with my Twitter posts.… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Human domination over nature is quite simply an illusion, a passing dream by a naive species. It is an illusion that has… — Donald Worster Copy Share Image
As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter… — Chaim Weizmann Copy Share Image
Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people… — Cecile McLorin Salvant Copy Share Image
There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is… — Thomas Armstrong Copy Share Image
There was no such person as Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was an invention of hers. A genius invention that she created, like… — Richard Avedon Copy Share Image
“A leader is responsible for those under his authority. That is the first rule of command. He is responsible for their safety,… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
Prior to 'Tokyo Drift,' the iconic perception of Asians in Hollywood films has been either the Kung Fu guy, the Yakuza guy… — Sung Kang Copy Share Image
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Today, I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“All of the experiences he’d had with the band so far, watching other bands at work, reading, getting into Iggy and Throbbing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She understood now why her friend Elizabeth, with her near-genius, analytical mind gave wide berth to murder mysteries, psychological thrillers, and horror… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“And if the prodigious genius of Azarya Sheiner has never found the solution, then perhaps that is proof that no solution exists,… — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Copy Share Image
John McEnroe...was arguably the best serve-and-volley man of all time, but then McEnroe was an exception to pretty much every predictive norm… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image