The straight roads are the roads of progress, the crooked roads are thee roads of genius. — Robert Towne Copy Share Image
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
Words of encouragement fan the spark of genius into the flame of achievement. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary. — Duncan Roy Copy Share Image
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the… — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange 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… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these… — Max von Essen Copy Share Image
In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Jimmy Iovine, he pretty much started off as an engineer and a producer, and then he started up a label. Then he… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties… — William Blake Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“Genius has now all-but disappeared from public view; partly because intelligence (which is strongly genetic) is in decline in the West, partly… — Bruce Charlton Copy Share Image
Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius. — Jon Brion Copy Share Image
The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Common sense is better than genius, and hence its bestowment is more universal. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius.” — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Books are useful only to such whose genius are suitable to the subject of them” — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The infirmities of genius are often mistaken for its privileges. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. — Jez Butterworth Copy Share Image
