Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
Nature is the armory of genius. Cities serve it poorly, books and colleges at second hand; the eye craves the spectacle of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
No matter where you are in the game, no matter how successful you might be, there will always be others out there… — Kimora Lee Simmons Copy Share Image
“Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
Duke Ellington is my choice for many reasons. Nobody has written so many great pieces of music, which are everlasting, and he… — Marian McPartland Copy Share Image
Mr. Huston (directed Marilyn in Asphalt Jungle and The Misfits) was an exciting looking man. He was tall, long-faced, and his hair… — Marilyn Copy Share Image
But don't despise error. When touched by genius, when led by chance, the most superior truth can come into being from even… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A few of the sublimest geniuses of Rome and Athens had some faint discoveries of the spiritual nature of the human soul,… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
“It argued a special genius; he was clearly a case of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere… — Henry James Copy Share Image
It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
... it is not the color of the skin that makes the man or the woman, but the principle formed in the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
We're often afraid to do anything unless we know we can do it extremely well. But we get to Carnegie Hall by… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It was the White Man who spanned the continents of the world with railroads and super highways and electrical power lines. It… — Ben Klassen Copy Share Image
I often joke with my audiences that I make most of my income on a ski pole. People smile but they get… — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism for everything, but Jay-Z is one of… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The appearance of Professor Benjamin Peirce, whose long gray hair, straggling grizzled beard and unusually bright eyes sparkling under a soft felt… — William Elwood Byerly Copy Share Image
Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead.… — Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic -… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
“far in Outliers, we’ve seen that extraordinary achievement is less about talent than it is about opportunity. In this chapter, I want… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius),… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
I don't use the word lightly, in fact, I don't use it at all, but Ben Marcus is a genius, one of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
Clearly the hardest thing for the working artist is to create his own conception and follow it, unafraid of the strictures it… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths… — Moshe Feldenkrais Copy Share Image
Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Ray Toro is a very eccentric, crazy genius type guy. I think he's a genius. He just got this thing at the… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image
Genius in the poet, like the nomad of Arabia, ever a wanderer, still ever makes a home where the well or the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“But if, instead, you define genius as working toward excellence, ceaselessly, with every element of your being—then, in fact, my dad is… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
Those with engineering skills will build tomorrow's genius computers. But those with the ability to create knowledge of any kind will be… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“The genius of Laplace was a perfect sledge hammer in bursting purely mathematical obstacles; but, like that useful instrument, it gave neither… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
