Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
We Americans understand freedom; we have earned it, we have lived for it, and we have died for it. This nation and… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
If it turns out that the Mayans are right and the world is going to end, you know what this means? Lindsay… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that even the greatest musical geniuses have sometimes worked without inspiration. This guest (inspiration) does not always respond… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
The church in all ages and among all peoples has been the consistent enemy of the human race. Everywhere and at all… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Did you hear about this genius that got on a plane and set fire to his feet? Turns out he had bombs… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Genius, without work, is certainly a dumb oracle, and it is unquestionably true that the men of the highest genius have invariably… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
I’m very proud of Seungri. I worked over a year for my album, but one day YG told Seungri to make an… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time.… — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
“People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the age of three and composed… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
Fashion wears many faces; it has the urge to belong to a group - to charm - but also the urge to… — Isabel Toledo Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think marriage licenses should be like driver's licenses. They expire after a number of years, and in order to keep… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
Lenny Breau is one of the true geniuses of the guitar. I suppose he is a musician's musician. His knowledge of the… — Chet Atkins Copy Share Image
The defining character of Steve Jobs isn't his genius, it isn't his talent, it isn't his success. It's his love. That's why… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
When the audience reacts all together, it's genius. The audience is its own being in a way. It's a weird, amorphous beast… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
“Genius' was a word loosely used by expatriot Americans in Paris and Rome, between the Versailles Peace treaty and the Depression, to… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Having everyone get exposed to brainstorming, prototyping, thinking about a problem, that's a best practice. One of the things I love seeing… — Megan Smith Copy Share Image
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history - the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people… — King Princess Copy Share Image
Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire, but of course they would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You need everyone to get together and just believe in it, and lead by example that it is possible to be outside… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Usually, I think it's best to play the song for them once and have them mix it up on the spot, because… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
As long as the artist invents and is inspired, he remains in a constrained state of mind, at least for the purpose… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t stop until I figured the damn thing out–it would take me fifteen or twenty minutes. But during the day, other… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises… While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained… — Phil Woods Copy Share Image
