To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Yes, I believe sincerely that every man has consummate genius within him. Some appear to have it more than others only because… — Glenn Clark Copy Share Image
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena… — Robert Lowie Copy Share Image
Well-struck baseballs must land safely in the gloves of fielders; borderline calls must go the way of the artist on the mound.… — Gabe Kapler Copy Share Image
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“And many a time, towards the end of life, does the genius repent of his choice. "It would be better not to… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Our country, customs, laws, our ambitions, and our notions of fit and fair-all these we never made; we found them ready-made; we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“They ask me, do I ever worry about losing my magic? I tell them, my only worry is that, some day I… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you… — Aaron Koblin Copy Share Image
I was, like, 12 or 13; the first hip hop song I tried to rapping to was Macklemore's 'Thrift Shop,' and my… — Rich Brian Copy Share Image
As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I got to pick the mind of a genius, and I realized why he was a genius. And I realized the man… — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
He [Professor Moriarty] is the Napoleon of crime, Watson. He is the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes… — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
“I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes,… — Mark E. Smith Copy Share Image
Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
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Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Using the Adagietto of Mahler's Fifth is one of the touches of pure genius in Visconti's film (even though Mahlerians complain very… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Donald Trump, as a businessman, he's not much of a builder and he's not much of dealmaker and he certainly isn't very… — David Frum Copy Share Image
So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that “now is the hour when we… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to first-principle thinking, where you assume the fewest number of things in a particular time frame. Zeroth-principle thinking is… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Generally, there's a correlation between good work and good reviews. In the very odd, very rare case that they say it's terrible,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic… — Charles Mingus Copy Share Image
In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All the works… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
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