With some songs, I have written narratives or I've tried to carry it through, but generally the things that were more genius,… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for… — Honore de Balzac 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
Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
I've seen the player who will inherit my place in Argentinian football and his name is Messi... He's a leader and is… — Diego Maradona Copy Share Image
There are some cloudy days for the mind as well as for the world; and the man who has the most genius… — Laurent Angliviel de la Beaumelle Copy Share Image
Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
'Get Out' was born out of the genius mind of Jordan Peele, to whom I will be forever grateful for believing in… — Daniel Kaluuya Copy Share Image
Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The inventor, the man with a unique, specialized talent, is the only real super-genius. But he is so rare that he needs… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Genius is a good deal like the sea ... Nothing can restrain its tide or quicken it. — Inez Haynes Irwin Copy Share Image
My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate. — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for… — Zoketsu Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image