“I’d been called a genius and a game-changer, a harbinger of the future and a once-in-a-generation mind. I’d walked in the halls… — CD Reiss Copy Share Image
Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing,… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Gordie, the white boy genius, gave me this book by a Russian dude named Tolstoy, who wrote, 'Happy families are all alike;… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The geniuses have created, but they were less: the saints have been, but they created little...A twofold tragedy of creativeness reveals the… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
The way financing for independent movies goes is great. You get the money from the guy who's actually doing the distribution in… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
We cannot escape our destiny, nor should we try to do so. The leadership of the free world was thrust upon us… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
For me, my core genius lies in the area of teaching and motivating. I love to do it, I do it well,… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit— that the madness that so often accompanies… — Andrew M. Ryan Copy Share Image
There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It… — Matteo Renzi Copy Share Image
“If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
“You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
For the long-limbed trees and watery landscape of Vancouver Island, read Hundreds and Thousands. Setting aside, who can resist a woman who… — Marjorie Celona Copy Share Image
“Objectionable, tedious, irritating labour, - this is the condition of genius, which no doubt explains the reason why men so rarely achieve… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Console yourself, dear man and brother; whatever you may be sure of, be sure at least of this, that you are dreadfully… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeous guys are a dime a dozen.… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I think the reality is Michael Jackson's humanity is so deep, the implications and inferences of his art so monumentally and magnificently… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
it was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad. i heard that.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were… — Blake Nelson Copy Share Image
Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius And it's better to be Absolutely ridiculous than Absolutely boring. And when it comes down to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It is the delight of vulgar talent to dazzle and to bind the beholder. But true genius seeks to defend us from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius, throughout history, has been found difficult to classify because it varies in amount: It's rare to find a genius in the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Was there a reason behind it? There would be no point in asking Zaphod, he never appeared to have a reason for… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The transformation of the impossible into reality is always the mark of a demonic will. The only way to recognize a military… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Nixon's genius was that he was able to portray himself as the toughest of the anti-communists, and yet run on a platform… — Harry Shearer Copy Share Image
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
The scriptures, for example, discredit an ancient philosophy that has come back into vogue in our day-the philosophy of Korihor that there… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
