Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

Adrian, you're a genius.

Richelle Mead

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

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.

Richard M. Nixon

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

Tony Buzan

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Steven Erikson

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

Steve Martin

Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.

Thomas Love Peacock

The highest wisdom and the highest genius have been invariably accompanied with cheerfulness. We have sufficient proofs on record that Shakespeare and Socrates were the most festive companions.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

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

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.

Rufus Wainwright

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

Walt Disney

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Steve Wozniak

In some parts of life, like mathematics and science, yeah, I was a genius. I would top all the top scores you could ever measure it by.

Steven Levy

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. (OK, it doesn't take a genius, or even a politician, to figure out that big changes are afoot when we have a medium that lets someone throw up a virtual storefront on the Web and instantly gain access to the global market.)

Robert Browning

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

Robert Browning

Talent should minister to genius.

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.

Richard Aldington

By the sense of mystery I understand the experience of certain places and times when one's whole nature seems to be in touch with a presence, a genius loci, a potency.

T. S. Eliot

Talent imitates, but genius steals.

T. S. Eliot

Talent imitates, genius steals.

William Hogarth

I know no such thing as genius, — genius is nothing but labor and diligence.

Warren Buffett

You don't have to be a genius to invest well

William Blake

God is the poetic genius in each of us.

Werner Erhard

I have a lot of respect for L. Ron Hubbard and I consider him to be a genius and perhaps less acknowledged than he ought to be.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Salvador Dali

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

William Cowper

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

William Godwin

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.