The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“ Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.” — Charles Hermite Copy Share Image
Genius cannot escape the taint of its time more than a child the influence of its begetting. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“[...] with the protecting sky in all its splendour and the golden sun blazing forth against a backdrop of crystalline blue, to… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I'm creating anything. He's such a genius, and I think 'Annie Hall'… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Hunter S. Thompson brings a lunatic genius to ordinary events, and I bring an ordinary sensibility to lunatic events. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Preemptively interwoven into this ingeniously crafted existence is everything that we need to be everything that we are.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is not every man who can be a Christian, even in a very moderate sense, whatever education you give him. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
The genius of the American Founders was to create an intricate system of balanced powers both within the state and between state… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
There's some advice for the next generation. If there's a dream in your heart, never let anyone tell you you've got no… — Murdoc Niccals Copy Share Image
For 37 years I've practiced 14 hours a day, and now they call me a genius — Pablo De Sarasate Copy Share Image
Every genius thinks INWARDLY toward his Mind instead of outwardly toward his senses — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“in Ovid, difficulty is what wakes up the genius (ingenium mala saepe movent),” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Your insecurity and neediness is what makes you a big neurotic ball of comedy genius. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big — Charles Garfield Copy Share Image
The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts. — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius. — Simon Cowell Copy Share Image