Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When I had the wonderful occasion to play a goofball, Jane, in 'Coupling,' it was definitely an homage to Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who… — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My genius from a boy Has fluttered like a bird within my heart; But could not thus confined her power employ, Impatient… — George Moses Horton Copy Share Image
The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which… — Robert Quillen Copy Share Image
The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
An idiot will do anything, no matter how stupid, because he is afraid of what everybody will think of him if he… — Tom Upton Copy Share Image
To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Claim whatever you want. Say you only want a happy family or a successful career or a big house. I say: no,… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
People are like, 'Wow you started your own record label,' and treat me like I'm some sort of innovative genius, when I'm… — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
The documentaries are one thing - I was highlighting someone else's work, someone else's genius. Once I had to find my own… — Robert B. Weide Copy Share Image
I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
the highest, the only reality, is ever at hand, but for the most part invisible. Genius makes it visible... — Egon Friedell Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a genius mathematician to have a career in cyber security, but it certainly helps to be a… — Simon Singh Copy Share Image
“Genius is a form of the life force that is deeply versed in illness, that both draws creatively from it and creates… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Genius is gifted with a vitality which is expended in the enrichment of life through the discovery of new worlds of feeling. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Education, however indispensable in a cultivated age, produces nothing on the side of genius. When education ends, genius often begins. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Now, inventiveness and empathy, those qualities, if they're together in the same person, you've got an entrepreneurial genius. But they do tend… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to… — Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa Copy Share Image
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You don't need to be good at everything, you just need to be absolutely, unequivocally, insurmountably good at one thing. Once you… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Thank you for that, boy genius! Where did you graduate from? Hogwarts School for the Mentally Unbalanced?” — Leia Shaw Copy Share Image
If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe31.… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius. — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy. — Ouida Copy Share Image
'Get Out' was born out of the genius mind of Jordan Peele, to whom I will be forever grateful for believing in… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp,… — Al-Waleed bin Talal Copy Share Image
To me, the real genius in making television for kids is making something that inadvertently - or perhaps intentionally - becomes something… — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
A month's intelligent instruction in the theory of numbes ought to be twice as instructive, twice as useful, and at least 10… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting,… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
The person who figures out how to harness the collective genius of his or her organization is going to blow the competition… — Walter Wriston Copy Share Image
We need to develop the intuitive capacities of the brain that some geniuses have manifested over humanity's lengthy history. — Thomas Keating Copy Share Image
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