Genius Quotes

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The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game. — Albert Goodwill Spalding
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to… — John Philip Sousa
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for… — William Gilmore Simms
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in… — George Saintsbury
No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without… — Mark Rydell
Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. — Joshua Reynolds
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. — Quintilian
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily… — Robert Quillen
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. — Mario Puzo
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. — J. B. Priestley
The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services… — John George Nicolay
All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in… — Jack Nance
I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them… — Brittany Murphy
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and… — Debi Mazar
You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to… — Mary MacLane
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted… — Rich Lowry
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do. — James Lipton
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. — James Lipton
Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
She was a genius, my mother. — Sally Kirkland
Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one… — Dorothy Kilgallen
Gene Roddenberry was a genius. — Persis Khambatta
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry… — Frank B. Kellogg
Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a… — John Lennon

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