Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

I have known many chess players, but among them there has been only one genius - Capablanca!

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.

I have no talent for making new friends, but oh such genius for fidelity to old ones.

I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

I have often noticed that the need for cash and the production of a masterpiece just don't coincide with me. Money will hit me at a big off-period and genius will hit me in starvation, that is, I often get the money when I don't think I deserve it and have been lolling around for days and days thinking the most abysmal thoughts.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

I just finished Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," which I think is a work of genius.

I know of only six genuine comic geniuses in movie history; Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho Marx & Harpo Marx, Peter Sellers, and W.C. Fields.

I knew Steve Carell because of Little Miss Sunshine, so I felt very comfortable with him. Maybe he always does it to guest stars, but I felt as though he was being particularly funny with me, and particularly stretching the boundaries of improvisation. He's such a comic genius. I hate to use that word, because everyone throws it around, but Steve Carell is channeling something.

I know how to turn it on [computer]. I know where the disc goes: in that little slot but I can't always get it out. And I have three genius-level computer savvy kids who save my ass all the time. I'll tell you what I don't do. I don't watch the news on TV anymore. I get my news online. And like all of you, I Google whoever I want.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to blend an American freshness and pragmatism with Russian ideas about strategy

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.

I love the beginning of Magnolia, the thing about the dealer. That scene is genius. Brilliantly acted.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

I love the South Park guys, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They're geniuses. I throw that word around a lot, but I really do mean it.

I'm a misunderstood genius.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

I'm equal part genius, equal part buffoon.

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.

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

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them anyways.

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

I'm not saying that I'm the grand genius that came in on a float and made it happen, but they liked my pitch. I was on my way to a camping trip with my daughter when my agent called and said, "This thing came up and it's really wild and crazy, do you want to read it?" And, I said, "Yeah, why don't you just send it to me? But, I'm going on this camping trip, so I probably won't be able to read it until I get back.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

I’m the archetype of a disabled genius, or should I say a physically challenged genius, to be politically correct. At least I’m obviously physically challenged. Whether I’m a genius is more open to doubt.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization.

Indulge, and to thy genius freely give, For not to live at ease is not to live.

I'm wired with a little bit of self-loathing, not that kind of self-loathing that paralyzes me, but it's there. The things I'm most loved for are sometimes the things that annoy me, not my favorite stuff, but those flashes of genius moments, they're called, I rarely see them as a one eureka light bulb idea.

[In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.

I never said I was a genius. I never said I was a cornerstone. I've never said I'm a legend in my own time. You never heard me say nothing like that.

I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin.

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.