Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Charles Caleb Colton

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Charles Caleb Colton

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Charles Dickens

Eccentricities of genius.

Camille Paglia

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

Camille Paglia

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

William Shakespeare

There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar.

Bob Packwood

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

David Foster Wallace

Here is how to handle being a feral prodigy.

Ethel Mumford

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

Lindsay Davenport

I was never a prodigy.

Edith Piaf

I can die now. I've lived twice.

Billie Holiday

Don't be in such a hurry.

Daniel Boone

I'm going now. My time has come.

Dudley Moore

I can hear the music all around me.

Doc Holliday

Well I'll Be Damned. This is funny.

Henry David Thoreau

I did not know that we had ever quarreled.

Francois Rabelais

I am going to seek a great perhaps.

George Best

Don't die like I did.

Princess Diana

My God. What's happened?