Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the… — Bruce Hutchison Copy Share Image
The iPhone will forever be associated with the inventive genius of Steve Jobs and Silicon Valley. But the roots of innovation can… — Marvin Ammori Copy Share Image
You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I don't think you could teach someone to be a genius, but you can certainly teach them to not make rookie mistakes… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The value of a dollar is to buy just things; a dollar goes on increasing in value with all the genius and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
The light of genius is sometimes so resplendent as to make a man walk through life, amid glory and acclamation; but it… — William Mountford Copy Share Image
Many jazz musicians affect a misunderstood-genius air when they play, which alienates the audience and breaks down the communications of the music.… — Gabor Szabo Copy Share Image
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Funny, gorgeous, and a genius. What a package." He backed out of the parking space, smiling as he drove away. I loved… — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know,… — Jill Scott Copy Share Image
“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
To exact of every man who writes that he should say something new, would be to reduce authors to a small number;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I always wondered, you know I watch "Cops" all the time - why doesn't a drug dealer design a trap door under… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
James Gandolfini was a genius. Anyone who saw him even in the smallest of his performances knows that. He is one of… — David Chase Copy Share Image
Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before?… — Victoria Smurfit Copy Share Image
I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird… — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have… — Gary Numan Copy Share Image
Fullscreen is doing some really interesting work. They are taking these YouTube stars and people who have made entire careers out of… — Madeline Brewer Copy Share Image
Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to… — Paul Russo Copy Share Image
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Some people think they are such geniuses and just thought of that. They think they are so smart, like they say "All… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
