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
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
“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
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 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
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
Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an… — Nile Rodgers Copy Share Image
Alexander McQueen was one of the greatest fashion designers of his generation. His genius, sometimes provocative, admired and saluted by all, constantly… — Francois-Henri Pinault Copy Share Image
Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Foucault's genius is to go down to the little dramas, dress them in facts hardly anyone else has noticed, and turn these… — Ian Hacking Copy Share Image
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them.… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
“People marvel at the genius of Mozart because he supposedly wrote "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the age of three and composed… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
I think you too recognize the important relationship between philosophy and art, and it is just this relationship that most painters deny.… — Piet Mondrian Copy Share Image
George W. Bush, 43rd president of the United States, became the first incumbent president to increase his majority in both the Senate… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“He was one of those who looked like a genius. I looked like a dishwasher so these types always pissed me just… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Developing your unique thought to the level of being appreciated and adopted by the world - that's genius.” — Ogwo David Emenike Copy Share Image
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I am helping people maybe scrape off some of the old stuff that has been put upon us that has taken us… — John Assaraf 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
It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention… — Joseph Haydn Copy Share Image
Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are… — Stephanie Crayencour Copy Share Image
This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth… — Mark Akenside Copy Share Image
“Success at Go requires the tactic of the soldier, the exactness of the mathematician, the imagination of the artist, the inspiration of… — Zhang Yungi Copy Share Image
I disapprove of the analysis that Jho Low was special and that he pulled off something amazing, because I think he was… — Clare Rewcastle Brown 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
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
“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
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
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
'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
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
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
