In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think if you think of our lives as musicians, it's craftsmanship. We're not artists, we're more artisans. You know, I don't… — David Prowse Copy Share Image
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time.… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I don't like the fact that no one has any imagination anymore. It doesn't pay to be a dreamer because all they… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
“It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black, half-way down, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men,… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
My job is to make a film that can sit as a standalone piece, that if it's the only Marvel film you… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
We are entering a hyperconnected world where every boss now has more access, cheap access to cheap labor, cheap genius, cheap robot,… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
The greatness of America is that it produces exuberant geniuses like Louis Armstrong and Fred Astaire and Leonard Bernstein. We are meant… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony… — William Beebe Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
When I started out in the duck-call business, my college buddies would come in and say, 'Robertson, you have a college degree.… — Si Robertson Copy Share Image
I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Work is honorable. It is good therapy for most problems. It is the antidote for worry. It is the equalizer for deficiency… — J. Richard Clarke Copy Share Image
The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live… — America Ferrera Copy Share Image
As children, we come into the world with a natural desire to both speak and draw. Society makes sure that we learn… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly,… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“character-driven idea fascinated Barrios. It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck,… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
No writer, painter, or actor - no artist - is ever handed a sharp knife (although a few people are handed almighty… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've learned to distinguish between the greatness of God and the inexcusable evil that has been done by those professing his name.… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“I was smart enough to know that I shouldn't tell anyone the reason I needed that icy air. No need to spill… — A.J. Jacobs Copy Share Image
With all this extra stressin The question I wonder is after death, after my last breath When will I finaly get to… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image