Top 1200 True Genius Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Keith, how does it feel to be a genius?

Wit and humor belong to genius alone.

Our genius ain't appreciated around here... let's scram!

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

Isco is a genius. He is a natural and a huge talent.

Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

I had dreamt of playing for Arsenal and Real Madrid, and those dreams came true. Maybe I can dream of winning the Ballon d'Or, and that can come true as well.

I can't take his genius any more.

The costume designer Ellen Mirojnick is a genius.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form, and thus with an independent existence. Its heartwood is calligraphy - the dance, on a tiny stage, of the living, speaking hand - and its roots reach into living soil, though its branches may be hung each year with new machines. So long as the root lives, typography remains a source of true delight, true knowledge, true surprise.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

True renunciation can be attained by anyone - whether a millionaire, parent, student, politician, farmer or engineer. It's not what you have or don't have; it's your state of consciousness. In essence, it means that true peace that comes from true renunciation arrives when we understand that nothing is mine. Whatever intelligence I have, whatever abilities I have, whatever family members I have, whatever wealth or property I have, is the sacred property of God or the Divine.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Genius may be born, but innovation can be learned.

Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs of genius.

Genius involves both envy and calumny.

Jerome Robbins, to me, is the genius of a lifetime.

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.

Chris Parnell's a genius, so he'd be amazing on 'Who's Line.'

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

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

I want people to think I'm a creative genius.

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.

f fear is too strong, the genius is suppressed

For style beyond the genius never dares.

Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

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

Genius is never understood in its own time.

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.

Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius!

Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.

What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure.

It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that ... insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.

Art Tatum -- he was a genius. And Einstein, not me.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

Each man's soul is his genius.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

The greatest form of genius is that which isn’t noticed.

I think true originality is perpetual. It's always rolling along. True originality is not like this award or trophy you get if you do something weird. It's with you if you have it, and it's still rolling along somewhere, you just gotta go find it. It takes time to reach that point, and understand true originality... I think we all can find it.

For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?

There's no genius behind it. It's persistence and listening to people.

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

True emotions and sincere words never perish. The great heart of humanity gladly receives and embalms every true utterance of the humblest of its offspring.