Best 2088 quotes in «genius quotes» category

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

I was obsessed with Eminem when I was younger. When he first came out I was about 12 and fanatical about his 'Slim Shady' CD. I think he's a genius.

I went to a French school, so we didn't study Bram Stoker there. I just thought it was a genius thing.

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius - the union of them for practical application.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

I would say Steven Spielberg is family to me. He's a genius. We survived a hurricane together. I ran from half-puppet,half-nothing creatures. It was months of our life as family. It was the wildest film, Jurassic Park, I'd ever worked on that way.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.

Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten thousand lightning flashes of genius, which, unless thus fixed and arrested, might have been as bright, but would have also been as quickly passing and perishing, as the lightning.

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

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry.

"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.

Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

Les Miles looks like the mad science genius.

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

Madness in method, that's genius

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

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

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage.

Many a profound genius, I suppose, who fills the world with fame of his exploding renowned errors, is yet everyday posed and baffled by trivial questions at his own supper table.

Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Mankind has the genius to bring all the world together and the ignorance to fight upon arrival.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.

Mediocrity borrows, genius steals.

Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.

mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.