Amiable Quote by James Lileks Download Open image “Genius flames and dies, but amiable competence can live forever.” — James Lileks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Amiable Competence Dies Flames Forever Genius Intelligence Live forever
Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying. — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push. — Mary Hunter Austin Copy Share Image
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking life by the scruff of the neck — Christopher Quill Copy Share Image
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
“So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
I’ll feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when you’ve gone over to the Dark Side. But I’ll be fine. That’s the… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
And I don't want posture lessons from a country that spent the last 20 years flopping on its back and grabbing its ankles when… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
It takes a particularly rarified variety of idiot to look at a Jew-hating fascist with a small mustache - and decide that his opponent… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“She was moving slowly, appearing to come no closer. Perhaps she was losing ground against the earth's rotation.” — James Lileks Copy Share Image
If you think the ’80s were dumber than the ’70s, either you weren’t there or you weren’t paying attention. — James Lileks Copy Share Image
We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Drivers in a traffic jam, frustrated by each others presence, are not the most amiable of men. — David Riesman Copy Share Image
In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The… — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The beauty of the person of Christ, as represented in the Scripture, consists in things invisible unto the eyes of flesh. They are such… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do,… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
Admonition never sinks so deeply on the heart as in the hour of trial; young, amiable as you are, life teems, I doubt not,… — Regina Maria Roche Copy Share Image
