I see these other actors come up with this tough-guy personas and now when they're on talk shows they're all... But that's… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
No convention gets to be a convention at all except by grace of a lot of clever and powerful people first inventing… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
Thus the brave and aspiring life of one man lights a flame in the minds of others of like faculties and impulse;… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
The consolations of space are nameless things. It was after the neurosis of winter. It was In the genius of summer that… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“A lot of people say there's a fine line between genius and insanity. I don't think there's a fine line, I actually… — Bill Bailey Copy Share Image
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than… — Norman Robert Campbell Copy Share Image
The study of combinations should enrich the analytical spirit of studious amateurs. Thereafter the most gifted among them will be able to… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky Copy Share Image
True intimacy is a human constant. People of all types find it equally hard to achieve, equally precious to hold. Age, education,… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The deep waters of time will flow over us: only a few men of genius will lift a head above the surface,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As we discern a fine line between crank and genius, so also (and unfortunately) we must acknowledge an equally graded trajectory from… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
In 1980s, I discovered 'Late Night with David Letterman.' It was on one of the 13 cable TV channels. They didn't have… — Tom Green Copy Share Image
In a sense, I am achieving what I set out to do - to devote myself to Stephen, to give him the… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
If you are a genius and unsuccessful, everybody treats you as if you were a genius, but when you come to be… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Well Socrates is 70 when he dies. He's been allowed to philosophise freely in the city for almost 50 years. He clearly… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Developing a genius mindset essentially comes down to two things: operating at speed and using the subconscious mind more than the conscious.… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists,… — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
The slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“[On Chopin's Preludes :] "His genius was filled with the mysterious sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in musical thought,… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Sultan Khan had become champion of India at Indian chess and he learned the rules of our form of chess at a… — Jose Raul Capablanca Copy Share Image
“In general, people accumulate knowledge gradually over a long period of time. However, there are extraordinary people all around us, who are… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Preacher' really appeals to my iconoclastic nature because I'm a student of comparative world religions since my early 20s, so I love… — Betty Buckley Copy Share Image
Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a… — Richard Marshall Copy Share Image
The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a… — Todd Gitlin Copy Share Image
I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get… — Gabriel Mann Copy Share Image