Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine. — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
To understand Mozart's contradictory qualities would indeed be to understand genius. — Lukas Foss Copy Share Image
“But recent research has clearly established that genius is NOT born – it is actually a learned skill. Think about what that… — Jill Ammon-Wexler Copy Share Image
“The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one—not rock stars, not professional… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis Copy Share Image
All the truly deep people have at the core of their being the genius to be simple or to know how to… — Martin E. Marty Copy Share Image
I would like to attribute my range of interests to being an independent intellectual, but although I'm independent, I'm not sure I… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
It helps me to learn things in different languages, even if it's just phonetically, and to make myself vulnerable to other audiences… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
While legislation can stimulate and encourage, the real creative ability which builds up and develops the country, and in general makes human… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently… — John Ambrose Fleming Copy Share Image
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more creative...nor destructive...than a brilliant mind wiht a purpose” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“If you have a spark of genius, kindle it until it becomes a flame.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck. — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
“They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent. — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
“...there was little that was truly original or indigenous to Gilead. Its genius was synthesis.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image