“Do we take less pride in the possession of our home because its walls were built by some unknown carpenter, its tapestries… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become… — James Morcan, Lance Morcan Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic -… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
'Mediocre' tends to mean 'undistinguished', while snobs enjoy their distinguishing hallmarks of style - how they wear clothes, use words, where they… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement… — Dean Keith Simonton Copy Share Image
So, I can't tell you the mentality behind the stuff, because that's thousands of hours manifested into one moment, maybe in the… — Matt Sydal Copy Share Image
The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Here lay the political genius of Franklin Roosevelt: that in his own time he knew what were the questions that had to… — Walter Lippmann 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
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time.… — Douglas Fairbanks Copy Share Image
Unlike earlier thinkers, who had sought to improve their accuracy by getting rid of error, Laplace realized that you should try to… — Kathryn Schulz 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
As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
