Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Short

He's an original genius. He's kind of blazed his own trail.

James Cash Penney

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. (Last words of a Sensitive Second-Rate Poet)

Christian Wiman

Mandelstam was an artistic genius, the sort that any century produces only a handful of.

George Steiner

Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

Ezra Pound

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Francis Ford Coppola

I probably have genius. But no talent.

Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Warren Spahn

I'm probably the only guy who worked for Stengel before and after he was a genius.

Henry Louis Gates

The genius is making a way out of no way.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent.

Henri Frederic Amiel

To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius.

George Eliot

Genius ... is necessarily intolerant of fetters ...

George Eliot

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

An entrepreneur is a kind of genius who is born, not made.

Theresa Grentz

Any night we make 11 3s, I look like a genius.

There's a movie in that story. Three geniuses having explosions.

Janet Flanner

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

Moe Howard

Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!

Frank Herbert

Madness in method, that's genius

Jean de la Bruyere

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

Jean Anouilh

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Julian Barnes

WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Julian Barnes

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Iris Murdoch

It's easier to sell junk when you're known than works of genius when you're unknown.

Gioachino Rossini

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Giorgio Moroder

What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.

Guillermo del Toro

Genius is the true mystery, and at its edge--the abyss.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Genius sees the answer before the question.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.