Blessed Quote by Marianne Moore

The real geniuses know where their writing has to be good and where they can get away with some mediocrity.

— Dmitri Shostakovich

“Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.”

— René Char

“[On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she speculated endlessly…

— Michael Holroyd

This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

— Tina Fey

… that sour blend of loneliness and lust for recognition, shyness and extravagance, deep insecurity and self-intoxicated egomania, that drives poets and writers out…

— Amos Oz

To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point…

— Hunter S. Thompson

Nothing is more important than my egomania!

— Clara

Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of…

— Martin Scorsese

I forgive all personal weaknesses except egomania and pretension.

— Herb Kelleher

Patton's personality was a complex one - he was obsessed with glory, but behind the ivory-hilted pistols, the egomania, the forbidding scowl, and the…

— Michael Korda

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

— Herb Kelleher

“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow man, and,…

— Erich Fromm