Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A true calling is aimed at the genius qualities already set within each person... — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Lord of the golden tongue and smiting eyes; Great out of season and untimely wise: A man whose virtue, genius, grandeur, worth,… — William Watson Copy Share Image
My wife determined that my genius should prevail, and that my final success as an ornithologist should be triumphant. — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Grateful to The Kerry Gaynor Method for saving my manager's life. He quit smoking thanks to their genius Method. — Steve Aoki Copy Share Image
Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages,… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I didn’t tell him. He found out. Basically, he caught me coming in after the last time you and I saw each… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters.… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
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I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
When I write a play, and we read it for the first time, the great fear is that everybody is going to… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“For what is genius, I ask you, but the capacity to be obsessed? ...We have all been geniuses, you and I; but… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image