The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“There are three ways to take down a wild tusklan. The average hunter takes a large-bore weapon with which to shoot the… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't… — David Prowse Copy Share Image
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, they say you can reduce genius to someone who spent 10,000 hours trying to get good at something. I'm not… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
“One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
“Geniuses don’t go mad,” he said. “That’s what people don’t understand. They get out so far out that the water is like… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are not many people that I respect more than rappers. I'm a huge fan of hip hop. It's incredible, one of… — Brett Gelman Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
No organization can depend on genius; the supply is always scarce and unreliable. It is the test of an organization to make… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
My brother's my best friend, without a doubt. Me and my big sister get along so well. She moved to East London,… — Will Poulter Copy Share Image
What critics might call eclectic, and Eastern folks quirky, we Southerners call cussedness-and it's the cornerstone of the American genius. As in:… — James Sallis Copy Share Image
Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Genius? Nothing! Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright-minded fellow can accomplish just as much if he will stick like… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
In the creative process, my ego has always been a huge tyrant ... a dictator and kind of rude and very misleading,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
[Some of the people I'd met] were wonderful people as human beings, and some people were more difficult. I could not see… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist.… — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce,… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
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