Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

Rising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear, as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.

Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership.

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.

Sanctity and genius are as rebellious as vice.

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

Saying that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic worth, is like saying that he had rheumatism or suffered from diabetes. Madness, in fact, is a medical term that can claim no more notice from the objective critic than he grants the charge of heresy raised by the theologian, or the charge of immorality raised by the police.

Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

Scott Medlock. Some say he's a genius, some say he's a fool. I say he's the Jim Morrison of sports art, and proud to say, one of my closest friends.

Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.

Seldom can philosophic genius be more usefully employed than in thus rescuing admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?

Silence is the genius of fools and one of the virtues of the wise.

Silence is all the genius a fool has.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams.

Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS

Since when was genius found respectable?

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring.

Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

Six months go by very quickly when you're a genius.

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.

Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend

Some have the temperament and tastes of genius, without its creative power. They feel acutely, but express tamely.

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

Some of you may be perfectly happy with mediocrity. Some of you will get nothing but heartbreak. Some of you will be heralded as geniuses and become huge. Of course, all of you think that one describes you...hence the delusion necessary to push on.

Sometimes when you're making a film and something happens during a scene that you've just thought of, it can be missed if the wrong lens is on or if you're shooting in the wrong direction but this [performance capture] doesn't miss a thing. So, you might do something that's genius - very rarely, admittedly - but it doesn't miss it.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you know how to tell.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unknown faces, blindsiding you with creative genius.

So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.

Some performers are brilliant comedians, some are genius musicians, and some just make you happy to be alive. THE BOBS are all of that - and then some.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Steady work turns genius to a loom.

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.