“If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
The light of genius never sets, but sheds itself upon other faces, in different hues of splendor. Homer glows in the softened… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement. — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed… — Rick Yune Copy Share Image
Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
“Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius.” — Gloria Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
There is nothing so remote from vanity as true genius. It is almost as natural for those who are endowed with the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I remembered watching the film from Alfred Hitchcock, 'Dial M for Murder,' and he shot almost all of that movie in one… — Dario Argento 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
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
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
“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
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
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable. — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius. — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. — Woody Guthrie Copy Share Image
I don't make many mental mistakes. Yeah, I'm smarter than I look. — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image