Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rex Stout

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

Patton Oswalt

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman.

Paul Valery

Talent without genius isn't much, but genius without talent is nothing whatsoever.

Mel Brooks

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

Mary Pipher

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

Martin Amis

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back altered, parental mysteries, semi-magical twists.

Pope John Paul II

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

Philippe Starck

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

Pope Francis

When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure

Pope Francis

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Peter Medawar

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

Persis Khambatta

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

Paulo Coelho

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

Quentin Crisp

A gentleman doesn't pounce he glides. If a woman sits on a piece of furniture which permits your sitting beside her, you are free to regard this as an invitation, though not an unequivocal one.

Quentin Tarantino

The other thing is even the Jews in the course - even though metaphorically aligning themselves with Indians, and, you know, you have genocide aligning itself with another genocide.

Quentin Tarantino

I definitely have some colleagues that I respect, and we get together from time to time. But I actually have just like genuine friends. Paul Thomas Anderson is a genuine friend. Robert Rodriguez is a genuine friend. Rick [Richard] Linklater is a genuine friend. Eli Roth is a genuine friend. And so is Edgar Wright.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

Philip Yancey

For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.

Pope John XXIII

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

Pope Benedict XVI

The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit.

Richard Donner

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses.

Thomas Starr King

Great eloquence we cannot get, except from human genius.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Roberto Benigni

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Robert Schumann

Perhaps only a Genius can truly understand Genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

Samuel Johnson

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.

Samuel Johnson

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

Richard M. Nixon

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

Richard L. Evans

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

Tupac Shakur

Even a genius has his questions.