Genius Quote by Ben Marcus Download Open image ““Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't.”” — Ben Marcus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Genius Intelligence
“Franklin would find himself more attracted to people who were practical and reliable rather than dreamy and romantic.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Hang together, or hang separately. Benjamin Franklin is a genius.” — Renay Williams Copy Share Image
“There is a time in every woman's life when pink is her favorite color, when anything is believable and the lines separating the possible… — Christine Lemmon Copy Share Image
“But stupidity is one of two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.” — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Anyway, it struck me now in a different light, as being yet another bit of personal meaning which had ben taken from me, stripped… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should… — Maugham Somerset William Copy Share Image
“Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be,… — Charity Tahmaseb Copy Share Image
To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“..., and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Terms BEN MARCUS, THE 1. False map, scroll, caul, or parchment. It is comprised of the first skin. In ancient times, it hung from… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Loud people have thin, hollow bones. They can be broken in half and discarded into a pit. They snap as easily as children do,… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“This first. To understand this. Then maybe." Julian was impressed. The doctor had devised a pretty good tombstone. This first. To understand this. Then… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Who is setting the bar for what you call accessibility? The definition of “accessible” is “easy to understand,” and so much of the fiction… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots.” — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“The true elitists in the literary world are the ones who have become annoyed by literary ambition in any form, who have converted the… — Ben Marcus Copy Share Image
“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.” — Ben Marcus 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 as a… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca! — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
A time will come when the science of destruction shall bend before the arts of peace; when the genius which multiplies our powers, which… — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Treason implies responsibility for something, control over something, influence upon something, knowledge of something. Treason in our time is a proof of genius. Why,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image