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.

Jerry Reed

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Gene Kelly

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

Norm MacDonald

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Craig Ferguson

I realized women and humor were linked very closely.

Walter Benjamin

I realized that I was connected to Africa.

Bryan Cranston

I realized, "Oh my god, this is an enormous play [ "All the Way" ]. And it's almost all me. Big. big chunks of speeches, speeches, speeches." And I started to panic.

George Hamilton

I realized that the studios didn't really understand their own system.

Lola Kirke

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

Jodi Picoult

How many times would I throw this away before I realized it was what I had been looking for all along?

Lupita Nyong'o

I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be.

Richelle Mead

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

Wendelin Van Draanen

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.