I don't have a lot of respect for talent. Talent is genetic. It's what you do with it that counts. — Martin Ritt Copy Share Image
We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women have a genius for love; men can only learn the art indifferently. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity,… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In every idea of genius or in every new human idea, or, more simply still, in every serious human idea born in… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani… — Arfa Karim Copy Share Image
If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Philosophers of genius, children, and the people are equally wise - because they ask equally foolish questions. Foolish to a civilized man… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual,… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
I've done far too many things that I felt were going to be genius that weren't and I've done some things that… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
