The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame. — Ovid Copy Share Image
I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot. — Viv Albertine Copy Share Image
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one.” — Hermester Barrington Copy Share Image
“If I had a brain cell for every time I heard this, I'd be a goddamn genius.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Creativity is not intelligence, it is the ability to do what you did not know through the use of what you know.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future. — Lisa Whelchel Copy Share Image
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what… — Maurice Baring Copy Share Image
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to… — Navi Radjou Copy Share Image
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
“Divergent Dynamite (The Sonnet) You only know my infinite radiance, you got no clue to my innate hurricane. Day in and day… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Science has grown frightfully audacious in these days -- swift-footed, ponderous, careering over her iron ways with unslacking pace. This rampant dragon,… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the… — Charles Koch Copy Share Image
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is attention, more than any difference between minds and men.-In this is the source of poetic genius, and of the genius… — Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
