Churchill was fundamentally what the English call unstable - by which they mean anybody who has that touch of genius which is… — Harold MacMillan Copy Share Image
One type of concentration is immediate and complete, as it was with Mozart. The other is plodding and only completed in stages,… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“If people fully understand you, they will think of you as a normal, if they half understand you, will think of you… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for… — James Comey Copy Share Image
We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking. — Jean-Philippe Rameau Copy Share Image
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press would be an empty sound, and no man would venture to write on any subject, however, pure… — Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky's visible world was a world of sensationalism. He may in the last analysis be a great mystic or a great psychologist;… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
I worked for Jeff Kelin. He was a marketing genius before his time. Coupons, car rebates and the value meal (as we… — Steve Kaufman Copy Share Image
“And, of course, he eventually found it—proving that genius often really is just persistence in disguise. In applying the entirety of his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters… — Charles Lloyd Copy Share Image
“I compensate for my debauchery by being brilliant at it. I make sacrifices for it by waking up in a gutter covered… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“In every work of genius we recognize out own rejected thoughts'. Czyli żeby uznać coś za genialne , musieliśmy kiedyś o czymś… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness. — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“The genius of politics, of people like Frank, is to link them all, understand them all. To represent them all, not just… — Beatriz Williams Copy Share Image
I'm no scientist, but I'll dare extrapolate and say that it's pretty obvious that the more you struggle to recall something, the… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It takes no genius to destroy. The creators, the givers, the lovers, the healers - these are the heroes who know -… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what… — Billy Al Bengston Copy Share Image
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I go through phases sometimes: 'I'm a genius; they get me,' and sometimes I'm like, 'Why does anyone want to hear me?' — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't… — Matt Dallas Copy Share Image
“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that… — John Green Copy Share Image
From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The genius of poetry must work out its own salvation in a man; it cannot be matured by law and precept, but… — John Keats Copy Share Image
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
