A Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Genius Takes Whine

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
American - Novelist
September 24, 1896 - December 21, 1940

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.

Emile Hirsch

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Atul Gawande

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

Artie Lange

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

Otto Weininger

I think you have a right to whine. Honestly, Lucy. We all have the right to whine when life gets tough.

Nancy Werlin

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Leo Szilard

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Heinrich Heine

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

Heinrich Heine

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Artie Lange

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

Mel Brooks

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.