HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies… — Thomas Gainsborough Copy Share Image
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I love cooking. My Italian mother is a genius cook, and I picked that up from her. I make my own sauce,… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I will write a book one day about how I feel about every aspect of Emily Stone. She's a full genius. She… — Andrew Garfield Copy Share Image
Indeed the worthy housewife was of such a capricious nature, that she not only attained a higher pitch of genius than Macbeth,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“If it really were the case, as popular opinion has tried to establish, that the genius were separated from ordinary men by… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
“To actively create works is your inner genius reason six days a week...to find completion and rest in your creations on the… — Dr. Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
As for Rivaldo, he was a genius. Come on! It was so wonderful to see him with the ball. He played with… — Cafu Copy Share Image
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which includes those that live in it to some particular studies. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Make way! Move it, people! Lets make room for this poor woman's hideously disfigured, ginormous brain! She's a fucking genius!” — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it. — Eyvind Kang Copy Share Image
The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even… — Malcolm Turnbull Copy Share Image
The Genius Pattern = Thy will be done with my talents with my circles of influence with the opportunities that are laid… — Robert G. Allen Copy Share Image
“A genius looks at something that others are stuck on and gets the world unstuck. So the question is: Have you ever… — Seth Godin (Author Copy Share Image
Genius is mainly an affair of energy, and poetry is mainly an affair of genius; therefore a nation whose spirit is characterized… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
What has been done in the world - the works of genius - cost nothing. There is no painful effort, but it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius." — Kurt Fuller Copy Share Image
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying there's no such thing as genius. But if you're trying to choose between two theories and one gives you… — Paul Graham Copy Share Image
I'm not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign… — Jurgen Klopp Copy Share Image
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
