Does it not appear to you versatility is the true and rare characteristic of that rare thing called genius-versatility and playfulness? In… — Mary Russell Mitford Copy Share Image
But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Tried to find me an executive position, but no matter how smooth I talked they wouldn't listen to the fact that I… — Jim Croce Copy Share Image
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Isnt it lovely to know that even the great Sherlock Holmes, the quirky and genius Sherlock Holmes, is vulnerable to love as… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
Even if there are instances in which it can be mistook by onlookers, never fool yourself into using misunderstood genius as an… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
For the ignorant, even the most stupid things can be accepted as the most perfect! They can easily declare a blockheaded as… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set… — Rick Rosner Copy Share Image
“The task of genius is to keep the miracle alive, to live always in the miracle, to make the miracle more and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
But Shakespeare knows what the sphinx thinks, if anybody does. His genius is penetrative as cold midwinter entering every room, and making… — William Alfred Quayle Copy Share Image
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to… — R. Kelly Copy Share Image
A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Education is 'the guardian genius of our democracy.' Nothing really means more to our future, not our military defenses, not our missiles… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both. — Emily Gould Copy Share Image
Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I myself have always disliked being called a "genius." It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
Strategy is the most important department of the art of war, and strategical skill is the highest and rarest function of military… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
“Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Having scored 298 and still hitting a six is something unimaginable and you need to be a genius for that. — Waqar Younis Copy Share Image
“This man has talent, that man genius And here's the strange and cruel difference: Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,… — Anonymous 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
I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we… — William Crashaw Copy Share Image
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously… — Cullen Murphy Copy Share Image
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I hope you didn't bring the Asian kid along thinking he's a computer genius. Because I'm not," Takumi said. — John Green Copy Share Image
Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
There was never a genius who was not thought a fool until he disclosed himself; whereas he is a fool then only. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The only equivalent plunge from genius I could think of was Ernest Hemmingway's tragic loss of ability to write. Hemmingway got up… — Ian Wooldridge Copy Share Image
I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most. — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we… — Phil Bredesen Copy Share Image
I'm no genius, and others can outwork me. What I do is ask the naive, honest questions, and then I'm not satisfied… — Herman Daly Copy Share Image
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