New York is eating young geniuses [businessmen] up alive. It's eating them up alive, Stone. And it's showing the beauty of the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius. — Craig Bruce Copy Share Image
Persuading the people to vote against their own best interests has been the awesome genius of the American political elite from the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But… — Moustapha Akkad Copy Share Image
On the Internet, Spencer Hall at Everyday Should Be Saturday is the best writer in the universe. He's very funny. They're jokes… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The difference between talent and genius is this: while the former usually develops some special branch of our faculties, the latter commands… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The last verse [In My Secret Life] completely got to me, about how we all have great ideals but in reality we… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
“But his own mind was helpless against every moment's headline. He did nothing but leap into the mass of changes and explore… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I think I have great knowledge of - for military, and I think I have better vision for Syria than a lot… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I'd like to talk to Bob Marley. I'd just like to ask him what was his method. Bob is one of the… — Bruno Mars Copy Share Image
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well. — Chinmayi Copy Share Image
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a… — David Hume Copy Share Image
To be genius is not about rejecting stupid people's idea but is to find deep meaning from them and acting towards any… — Nyakallo Lets'ela Copy Share Image
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.” — Efiong Etuk Copy Share Image
The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Prince Rogers Nelson was the most gifted artist of the rock era. Not the greatest genius - just the most musical in… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds,… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The guy's a brilliant marketing genius, but musically, yeah, I am speaking about Puffy. Not just him, there's a whole school of… — Everlast Copy Share Image
“It has been written that so much of life is preparation, so much is routine, and so much is retrospect that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You… — Claudia Gray Copy Share Image
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House… — John F. Kennedy 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
The host of men who stand between a great thinker and the average man are not automatic transmitters. They work on the… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it… — Stendhal 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 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
In real friendship the judgment, the genius, the prudence of each party become the common property of both. — Maria Edgeworth 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
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image