Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.… — Seth Godin (Author Copy Share Image
If you refuse to study anatomy, the arts of drawing and perspective, the mathematics of aesthetics, and the science of color, let… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I believe 'Sonchiriya' is a film that will be recalled with much pride and respect for many years from now. We all… — Bhumi Pednekar Copy Share Image
Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“And what about talent? Nietzsche implored us to consider exemplars to be, above all else, craftsmen: “Do not talk about giftedness, inborn… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
I am through generalizing about ideas apart from men who generate them. I am through writing books about the dead, or writing… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
The genius of the Marx Brothers is for parody. They never are themselves. They exist too abundantly to be content with being… — Mark Van Doren Copy Share Image
But re-reading Voss also demonstrates again that although White wasn't 'a nice man', and indeed was—perhaps rightly—scathingly dismissive of my and other… — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a… — William Blake Copy Share Image
What drives intellectuals and professors crazy is somebody with a high school diploma who made a fortune in business. They agree with… — James Cook Copy Share Image
Whitney proved to be a competent manufacturer, but wasn't an original inventor to any important degree. Thomas Blanchard was a true genius:… — Charles R. Morris Copy Share Image
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust hard work, perseverance and determination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life… — Lee Jameson Copy Share Image
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
“We begin to become divine by learning to love like the divine loves. And how does the divine love? It loves everyone-including… — Carolyn Elliott Copy Share Image
I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the… — Bill Burr Copy Share Image
It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate… — Florence King Copy Share Image
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The genius of the American system is that we have created extraordinary results from plain old people.” — Phil Gramm Copy Share Image
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He… — Michael York Copy Share Image
But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Genius is expansive, irresistible, and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you, no cords can confine it. — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
“Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.” — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The genius' behind the new Rocky movie decided to call it Rocky Balboa so that we'll probably forget that it's number six.… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Genius does not care much for a set of explicit regulations, but that does not mean that genius is lawless. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should… — David Morrissey Copy Share Image
“Children are genius in the matters of making life fun and in the matters of making life unbearable, the adults are genius!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image