Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Jeselnik

I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.

Alphonse de Lamartine

It is for truth that God created genius.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on.

Jane Austen

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Jane Smiley

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.

Brian Clough

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Brian Eno

Genius is individual, scenius is communal.

Bobby Fischer

Morphy was probably the greatest genius of them all

Bob Packwood

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

Edmond de Goncourt

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Dawn Powell

For a genius to be a genius, he must have a selfless slave between himself and the world.

David Hume

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Claire Messud

Geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Charles Bukowski

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Brian Tracy

You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.

Jan Morris

The genius of Canada remains essentially a deflationary genius.

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.

Aaron Yoo

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

Charles Dickens

Never imitate the eccentricities of genius, but toil after it in its truer flights. They are not so easy to follow, but they lead to higher regions.

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.

Billy Wilder

The ultimate trick is to convince, persuade. Every single person out there is an idiot, but collectively they're a genius.

Bill Watterson

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Genius has its fatality. Must we not see in its works a manifestation of the will of Providence?

Benjamin Haydon

Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Carl Jung

Not nature, but the "genius of mankind," has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.

Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.