It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was stupid when I was 17 or 18. My thought process was that I thought that I was legitimately a hyper-genius,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Cristiano is an explosive type of player, with great technique, but he's still not as gifted as Messi in my opinion. Messi… — Fabio Capello Copy Share Image
“The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems as if nature, in regarding the geologic night behind her, when, in five or six millenniums, she had turned out… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By cultivating an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I cant dribble a ball and run at the same time, I cant do lay-ups… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Then instead of introducing Dre as the guy from N.W.A., Jerry Heller would say Dre was my producer! Dre would come to… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
Some men at the approach of a dispute neigh like horses. Unless there be an argument, they think nothing is doing. Some… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few… — Peter Roebuck Copy Share Image
People who have certain types of mental illness have different wiring in their brain. And part of that having a different kind… — H. A. Berlin Copy Share Image
To all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“he is a man of genius. Do you know what that means? It means he is brave, profound, and of clear insight.… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
It was my teacher's genius, her quick sympathy, her loving tact which made the first years of my education so beautiful. It… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
“All beings begin their lives with hope and aspirations. Among these aspirations is the desire that there will be a straight path… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
“There is satisfaction in defeating an enemy. But one must never allow oneself to become complacent. There are always more enemies to… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. We read the quotation… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things,… — Poo Bear Copy Share Image
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity; it is that which gives value to every character. The ignorant peasant, without fault,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he… — Nigel Kneale Copy Share Image
“The team must consist of three sorts of specialists, he says. Otherwise the revolution, whether in politics or the arts or the… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Superficial knowledge ... is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
The genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Sana Takeda is a genius. It's really that simple. Her vision and sense of story and beauty is beyond compare. I loved… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
“A life path may change because of important decisions or events. Those were what drove my current path. But sometimes the smallest… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable,… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that society (your school, your boss, your government, your family) keeps drumming the genius part out. The problem is… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image