The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
All are to be men of genius in their degree,--rivulets or rivers, it does not matter, so that the souls be clear… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“But genius, and even great talent, springs less from seeds of intellect and social refinement superior to those of other people than… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Burn the verses, I'll write fiction - burn the fiction, I'll write music - burn the music, I'll adopt a new language… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed.… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
As a firm believer in the power of songwriting, I feel privileged to be part of a team that continues to help… — Steve Stoute Copy Share Image
“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts:… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I'll see… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges,… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
Each individual is unique in ordinary life. The uniqueness becomes even more sharp and clear, crystal clear, when the person becomes enlightened… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm a huge Muppets fan. Gigantic. I think they're genius. I think they're some of the best work out there and completely… — Andie MacDowell Copy Share Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
The valuable library of Alexandria was pillaged or destroyed; and near twenty years afterwards, the appearance of the empty shelves excited the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the… — Richard Holt Hutton Copy Share Image
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form… — Mandy Patinkin Copy Share Image
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
I think David Letterman is a genius. Night after night he is funny and smart. He seems to really enjoy his jokes.… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
“People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. . . . I always wondered, ''Why has nobody… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I didn't get into rap to be no lyrical genius. I got into rap to feed my family and help the people… — Waka Flocka Flame Copy Share Image
I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Most humans know their own "reason" only in the sense that Hume defined it, as "a slave to the passions"-and by "passions"… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
“It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments of modern history were… — Abdus Salam Copy Share Image
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good… — Sam Houston Copy Share Image
I could talk for seven hours about Johnny Depp. There's no one like him. He has this amazing ability to watch something… — Rob Marshall Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan knew audiences. It was a key element of his political genius. One of the things at which brilliant politicians are… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
“Almost all genius up to now was one-sided—the result of a sickly constitution. One type had too much sense of the external,… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The dogma of the mystic offices of Christ being dropped, and he standing on his genius as a moral teacher, 'tis impossible… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
This pride of race is a quality which the German, fundamentally, does not possess. The reason for this is that for these… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart, is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
Even after the Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying, with bad… — Larry the Cable Guy Copy Share Image
“{ Replying to G. H. Hardy's suggestion that the number of a taxi (1729) was 'dull', showing off his spontaneous mathematical genius… — Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyangar Copy Share Image
