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.

Arthur Rock

So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.

Corey Dillon

I would prefer to be in a place where I'm appreciated.

Henry Rollins

All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up.

Gillian Jacobs

I feel like the Internet has embraced the pizza dance. I feel appreciated for once in my life.

Neal A. Maxwell

Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

J. Maarten Troost

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Randy Pausch

Your patience will be both appreciated and rewarded

James F. Cooper

Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions.

Zaha Hadid

I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.