"Genius is divine perseverance." Divine patience I believe he originally used, perseverance is better in my opinion. Genius I cannot claim nor… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“If you want to be a genius, it's easy: All you gotta say is, 'Everything stinks.' Then, you're never wrong.” — Wilbur J. Cobb Copy Share Image
The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will… — Akira Kurosawa 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example)… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Mayweather has boxing genius. But it takes one to know one, and he knew right away Pacquiao also has rare boxing IQ… — Skip Bayless Copy Share Image
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
True genius without heart is a thing of naught - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together make… — Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Copy Share Image
Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world. — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nasty the nicest. Im somewhat of a psychic. Just one minute after its heard. You all excited, you all repeat it. So… — Nas Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
“that’s the difference between a genius and a mastermind; a genius helps people, while a mastermind makes people help him.” I” — Lucas Flint Copy Share Image
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought 'Genius.' Inside I put the Polaroids, how much… — Sante D'Orazio Copy Share Image
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image