Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius. — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of… — Jon Gordon Copy Share Image
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Mayweather has boxing genius. But it takes one to know one, and he knew right away Pacquiao also has rare boxing IQ… — Skip Bayless Copy Share Image
A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The artist does not exist except as a personification, a figure of speech that represents the sum total of art itself. It… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Be known as a great resource. Are you an Excel genius? An expert on local restaurants? Fabulous at proofreading? Go beyond your… — Katrina Lake Copy Share Image
“To some extent, the direction of one's chosen path automatically selects for the paths that may cross it. A warriors path will… — Timothy Zahn, Star Wars: Thrawn Copy Share Image
I don't like that word 'discovery.' ... Sinatra was the first one to call Ray Charles a genius, he spoke of 'the… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
“The most recent writers on genius, creativity’s greatest manifestation, agree that it can appear at any point in the life cycle, not… — Lois W. Banner Copy Share Image
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on… — Declan Lynch Copy Share Image
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing its tail. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of… — Celia Green Copy Share Image
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example)… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nasty the nicest. Im somewhat of a psychic. Just one minute after its heard. You all excited, you all repeat it. So… — Nas Copy Share Image
“that’s the difference between a genius and a mastermind; a genius helps people, while a mastermind makes people help him.” I” — Lucas Flint Copy Share Image
“Dalí is one marvellous painter, but in living times he's one marvellous clown —more interesting for everybody.” — Salvador Dalí Copy Share Image
The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Marshall Rosenberg has a genius for developing and teaching practical skills urgently needed for a less violent, more caring world. — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
True genius without heart is a thing of naught - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together make… — Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin Copy Share Image
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring. — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his… — Robert Pattinson Copy Share Image
I've seen high and lows. When things go well that doesn't make me feel like some genius. Nor will I allow the… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Alekhine's real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position, long before combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Genius and sunshine have this in common that they are the two most precious gifts of heaven to earth, and are dispensed… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought 'Genius.' Inside I put the Polaroids, how much… — Sante D'Orazio Copy Share Image
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image