Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically.… — Dorothy Thompson Copy Share Image
Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race… — Baha'i International Community Copy Share Image
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius'… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is not freedom; the genius of the American system is checks and balances. Nobody gets all… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK,… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we… — U Thant Copy Share Image
Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky,… — Richard Ford 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
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives… — Flea Copy Share Image
“It’s no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“The hypnagogic state is considered by many to be a genius state, without boundaries or any limitations.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Finding people’s native genius and then labeling it is a direct approach to drawing more intelligence from them.” — Liz Wiseman Copy Share Image
A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
Genius is present in every age,but the men carrying it withinthem remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my… — Peter Gabriel Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have crazy ideas that sound crazy to everybody, but I'm sure everybody has had a crazy idea before. When you… — Fabolous Copy Share Image
“genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather a composite manifestation; a synthesis… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
While doing 'Ghazi,' Sankalp said he wanted me for his next film. He is a genius. There is always a mini-war going… — Satyadev Kancharana Copy Share Image
Once you realize that there are no geniuses out there, you can think, "I can do that". One reason I've succeeded is… — Donny Deutsch Copy Share Image
Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Fleabag' is genius: there's something so brave about a character voicing what we're all thinking but are too embarrassed to say. — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is… — John Philip Sousa Copy Share Image
“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at… — Michaela Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always… — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image