Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yogi Berra

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The key here is Ferrer is running for an office that no longer exists, ... Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life.

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.

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.

Gertrude Stein

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Knowledge without labor is profitless. Knowledge with labor is genius.

Georgette Heyer

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Horace

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

Herman Melville

Genius is full of trash.

Henry David Thoreau

I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Jacqueline Carey

Genius requires an audience.

Jack Vance

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Jake Shimabukuro

You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.

Isaac Disraeli

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

Jeremy Clarkson

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Horace Walpole

One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.

Horace Mann

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Ezra Pound

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

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

Henry David Thoreau

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Christian Wiman

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

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.

Josh Hopkins

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

Jo Brand

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

Ted McGinley

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Tupac Shakur

Even a genius has his questions.

Michel de Montaigne

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.