It's going to be like herding stray cats, and the political leaders who can do it will be remembered as the same… — William H. Calvin Copy Share Image
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius.… — Patrick Fischler Copy Share Image
I'm not a mad genius or anything, but I'm just constantly driven to make things up, but I wonder who I'm doing… — Limmy Copy Share Image
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're in a play, 50 percent is the genius of the actor, 50 percent is the genius of the author. When… — Marcel Marceau Copy Share Image
We started an organization that's the only sub-organization of the MacArthur Foundation and we are called the Macarturos. Usually when I win… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Among the English authors, Shakespeare has incomparably excelled all others. That noble extravagance of fancy, which he had in so great perfection,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling… — Tabatha Coffey Copy Share Image
A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great… — Ouida Copy Share Image
“I went to some classes. Vampire was in the Hair of Magical Magic Creatures. He looked all depressed because Draco had disappeared… — Tara Gilesbie Copy Share Image
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We submit to the society of those that can inform us, but we seek the society of those whom we can inform.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am a very mediocre intellect, at best, and I am smarter than most people I know - and that terrifies me. — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Holly frowned at her. "Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly." "Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A friendship formed in childhood, in youth,--by happy accident at any stage of rising manhood,--becomes the genius that rules the rest of… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
MUSIC MAY NOT MAKE YOU A GENIUS, or rich, or even a better person. But it helps train you to think differently,… — Joanne Lipman Copy Share Image
My favorite period is when we lived in the land of the three-minute song. The Motown thing - I thought they were… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and… — William Blake Copy Share Image
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Experience is looking in the past to find an answer, genius is looking in the future to raise a question. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
Being the most striking manifestation of the art of metal structures by which our engineers have shown in Europe, it [the Eiffel… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged. — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of… — Travie McCoy Copy Share Image
“You're not stupid for not knowing how to turn on a light bulb. You're a genius for not knowing how to turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
“I say, 'Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose, and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!” — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot. — Shlomo Riskin Copy Share Image
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The painter of genius will not waste a moment upon those smaller objects which only serve to catch the sense, to divide… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
The creative urge matters. Stories matter. Images matter. It matters that you were born with a genius, a guiding spirit, a daimon… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
the distinction between talent and genius is definite. Talent combines and uses; genius combines and creates. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
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