Famous Quotes & Sayings

Berkeley Breathed

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Arnold Schoenberg

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

Bertrand Russell

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

Maude Adams

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

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.

William Cowper

Manner is all in all whatever is writ, the substitute for genius sense and wit

Jeff Mullins

To have a filly like this is unbelievable, ... She's so smart. It doesn't take a genius to train her. I'm glad I have her.

He's a good coach. You know, you don't have to be a genius when you have 6-2 and 6-2 on the front. But the system he runs, he understands his strengths and stays within them. I think that says a lot about their program.

He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playing great.

Jessi Colter

He's got the Waylon vibe, but the Shooter genius.

Matthew Arnold

It always seems to me that the right sphere for Shelley's genius was the sphere of music, not of poetry.

Eugene Delacroix

What makes men of genius, or rather, what they make, is not new ideas, it is that idea - possessing them - that what has been said has still not been said enough.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

He is the very spirit of inventive genius that this museum looks to inspire people with.

Michael Keaton

I always thought what made 'Beetlejuice' look so great was because it looked like some genius kid made it in his basement.

James Galway

He was the outstanding musical genius of all time, when you think of how much he wrote and how long he lived.

He is going to be looked on as a genius for that.

Brad Pitt

He'll go for years on pulling off a prank, ... His genius in that one was not pulling a prank on me.

Camille Paglia

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

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.

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.

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.

Camille Paglia

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

Carl Jung

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