Social laughter is momentary, soon burns itself out and passes away like the fire and smokes of straw, but genius shakes the… — Boris Sidis Copy Share Image
Idealists, workers of thought, unite to show how inspiration and genius walk in step with the progress of the machine, of aircraft,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
“Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That's the downside to being… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius - the power of acting… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The true work of art is the one which the seventh wave of genius throws up the beach where the undertow of… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We’ve all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
Like many of the people quoted on this dust-cover, I have not read Carl King's book. I am confident, however, that my… — Heather Anne Campbell Copy Share Image
Genius is intensity of life; an overflowing vitality which floods and fertilizes a continent or a hemisphere of being; which makes a… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
[Pawn Sacrifice is] about the 1972 chess championship between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky. I play Paul Marshall.It was a great story… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
“True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make… — Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Copy Share Image
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's… — John Ratzenberger Copy Share Image
Generalissimo Stalin directed every move... made every decision... He is the greatest and wisest military genius who ever lived... — Georgy Zhukov Copy Share Image
Cristiano is a great player who scores many goals. He's a genius, if I said it any other way I'd be lying. — Jordi Alba Copy Share Image
We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“To be rich and talented at the same time is rare but possible, but the most talented; the genius, is the one… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I never have any clue what my next book is going to be about, when the time comes, the book starts pouring… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly. — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
You're a star -- and so am I. I'm a genius -- and so are you. Your success encourages my brilliance, and… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
“An exponent of love is immune to the criticism of a genius, for divine inspiration is superior to glib talk.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole… — Albert Einstien Copy Share Image
Mark Labbett, maths genius as he undoubtedly is, has every statistic imaginable. There is a reason for that. All the stats make… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The three indispensable of genius are: understanding, feeling, and perseverance; the three things that enrich genius are: contentment of mind, the cherishing… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
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