A book of great beauty and manically exquisite insight with a wild and deadly humor . . . The only American novelist… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
A savant, by definition, is somebody who has a disability and, along with that disability, has some remarkable ability. Prodigies and geniuses… — Darold Treffert Copy Share Image
The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it. — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise. — Bernard De Bonnard Copy Share Image
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretensions to an oppressive greatness; one who loves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone can write great music... Paul McCartney is a genius. He's so prolific. All we should do is bow down to… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Busquets has been a great player for Spain and Barcelona, don't get me wrong. He's a very effective player and is the… — Sam Allardyce Copy Share Image
Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson Copy Share Image
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Appreciation, whether of nature, or books, or art, or men, depends very much on temperament. What is beauty or genius or greatness… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
To do science today is to experience a dimension unique in contemporary working lives; the work promises something incomparable: the sense of… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
We say that every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment. We measure our friends so. We know, they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't be ashamed of the creative urges which drive you. And certainly don't be ashamed of your ego. Hubris is only hubris… — Kieron Gillen Copy Share Image
It's a good thing I'm a professional and could see the pure genius talent behind the raw sexual beauty. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius. — Alexander Skarsgard Copy Share Image
I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but… — Michel Gondry Copy Share Image
The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius. — Amy Lowell 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
The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up… — William S. Knudsen Copy Share Image
It is scarcely possible that the eyes of contemporaries should discover in the public felicity the latent causes of decay and corruption.… — Edward Gibbon 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
When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
With all this extra stressin The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath When will I finaly get to… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
