Commonplace Quote by James Russell Lowell Download Open image “To genius life never grows commonplace.” — James Russell Lowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commonplace Genius Grows Inspirational Intelligence Life Love
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. — James Russell Lowell 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
It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
For a few minutes of every day, every man becomes a genius. This is the tragedy of life. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Everybody is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions in their… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
It was just the sort of yatch you'd expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
Security is a component of everyday life that one spending time in Washington, D.C., gets accustomed to. Metal detectors, police vehicle barriers and heavily-armed… — Mike Crapo Copy Share Image
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ...… — Edward Eggleston Copy Share Image
To be original is to discover the commonplace of a thousand years--to face at first the sneer that no one would have thought of… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The profession of music is lacking in horse sense, not only because the commonplace variety of horse is absent from its operations, but because… — Harry Partch Copy Share Image
Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
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