Clive Barker is just genius, and he's incredibly gifted in so many different ways. He can write and direct and paint and… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push. — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“You’re laughing at me right now. That’s fine. Genius is often scoffed at when it arrives in the form of odd choices… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
People either think I'm this totally savage, idiot-savant genius guy who's lucked out or they think I'm a super-manipulative crafty businessman, this… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“{Letter from Debbs to Eva Ingersoll, husband of Robert Ingersoll , just after the news of Robert's death} We were inexpressibly shocked… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
There are no such men today. We have created a mechanism that makes it practically impossible for a real genius to appear.… — Erwin Chargaff Copy Share Image
I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise. "Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again,… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
Europe has always owed to oriental genius its divine impulses. What these holy bards said, all sane men found agreeable and true. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The genius of Rachel Dolezal's transracial achievement is that it has nearly limitless applications. Rachel is taking 'the power of positive thinking'… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style… — Chilly Gonzales Copy Share Image
“When it comes down to it, though, the real decision is inevitable: If one of us has to be destroyed, let's make… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The daily life of a genius, his sleep, his digestion, he ecstasies, his nails, his colds, his blood, his life and death… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready… — Cesare Lombroso Copy Share Image
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that… — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
Talent is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Genius is the infinite capacity for achievement without taking any pains at all. — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong.… — Eddie Griffin Copy Share Image
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
One of the joys of cinema is that, given the right circumstances, and the genius director, an incredibly wonderfully actor can become… — Vanessa Redgrave Copy Share Image
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
It could appear that I'm some kind of natural genius, but it's just a million small lessons I've picked up over the… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius. — Damien Hirst Copy Share Image
When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in… — Fuxi Copy Share Image
'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
In the history of education, the most striking phenomenon is that schools of learning, which at one epoch are alive with a… — Ted Sizer Copy Share Image
The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
