A renowned genius once asked a student, "What are you watching when you sit on a hillside in the late afternoon as… — Jeremy Kagan Copy Share Image
Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his… — Gerald Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
And what is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree…… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
That Ted Turner is a genius...He has taken what used to be a carnival side show and turned it into a gold… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“The most recent writers on genius, creativity’s greatest manifestation, agree that it can appear at any point in the life cycle, not… — Lois W. Banner Copy Share Image
I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
It's no good starting out by thinking one is a heaven-born genius- some people are, but very few. No, one is a… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Genius, when employed in works whose tendency it is to demoralize and to degrade us, should be contemplated with abhorrence rather than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
I think that we're now deep into a struggle for control over the Internet and there are various actors - state, corporate,… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
“Leadership and obedience are the two legs on which a warrior's life is balanced. Without both, victory cannot be achieved. Leadership depends… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
I've met some real talents that were...real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“A person who exchanged his reason for genius has no meaning. God is unfair, but only this unfairness is unacceptable. If you… — Tōru Hayama Copy Share Image
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out;… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, it was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now, it stands… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One of the terrible things about George W. Bush Administration is that nobody wants to hear bad news. The neoconservatives are a… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
“We’ve all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my… — Heather Anne Campbell Copy Share Image
