Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg is a genius. Not in the Asperger's, autistic way depicted in the very fictional movie 'The Social' Network, the cognitive… — Antonio Garcia Martinez Copy Share Image
You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear… — Alfred Bester Copy Share Image
The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation,… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
And though the philosopher may live remote from business, the genius of philosophy, if carefully cultivated by several, must gradually diffuse itself… — David Hume Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Andres is a genius, and it's an honour to share the same dressing room. I hope to learn a lot from him.… — Philippe Coutinho Copy Share Image
True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The arts not only imbue our sense of sight, balance, movement, touch and hearing, they also lift our logical minds - the… — Eugene Schwartz Copy Share Image
A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
I did some background work for a movie called 'Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius' in Atlanta and got bit by the bug.… — Matt Lanter Copy Share Image
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Bach in general was so good with the violin. He just finds the genius way around his music on the instrument. When… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he's also… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I do not believe, as do so many musicians, that genius should be left to fight its way to the light. Genius… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Renaissance cowboy/raconteur Pop Wagner ...deadpan funny ...his presence is like meeting Woody Guthrie and Will Rogers riding a single, many colored horse.… — Ron Miles Copy Share Image
The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To create a community of radical scholars, men and women who recognize that rules and social conventions are arbitrary, but have mastered… — Howard Adelman Copy Share Image
Geniuses are those who have the intelligence, enthusiasm, and endurance to acquire the needed expertise in a broadly valued domain of achievement… — Dean Keith Simonton Copy Share Image
There are many eyes that can detect and honor the prudent and household virtues; there are many that can discern Genius on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I say I'm in love with her. What does that mean? It means I review my future and my past in the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some people are better at maths than others: no one thinks you can be 'taught' to be a mathematical genius. And no… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I remember on one of my many visits with Thomas A. Edison , I brought up the question of Ingersoll . I… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
I think it crucial to recognize that you can't straightforwardly "adapt" Douglas Adams. Douglas's genius was uniquely his own. What I've tried… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
...you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom.… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
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Mankind must work continually to produce individual great human beings - this and nothing else is the task... for the question is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
This paradox of vision - the genius of youthful ignorance - is nothing new. Had Bill Gates not been in diapers in… — Steven Levy Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
success in L.A. is completely arbitrary. One day you're the brilliant genius of life, the next day people act like there's a… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Truly, the bench is a boon to idlers. Whoever first came up with the idea is a genius: free public resting places… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
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