Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
~By Mel Torme ~
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
~By Sid Caesar ~
If we will maintain our hope and confidence in the genius of our people, they will work out this problem, and their ability and industry will bring us back to normal conditions.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
It will work. I am a marketing genius.
~By Paris Hilton ~
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
~By Joseph Addison ~
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.
~By David Ogilvy ~
We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
All of us, who are members of the Germanic peoples, can be happy and thankful that once in thousands of years fate has given us, from among the Germanic peoples, such a genius, a leader, our Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, and you should be happy to be allowed to work with us.
~By Heinrich Himmler ~
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
~By Aldous Huxley ~
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
~By James Lipton ~
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
~By George Eliot ~
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
~By Diana Wynne Jones ~
Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books.
~By Harvey Keitel ~
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.
~By Louis Aragon ~
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
~By Fulton J. Sheen ~
Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
~By J. G. Ballard ~
I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
~By Randy Newman ~
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
~By Gamal Abdel Nasser ~
Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.
~By Rufus Wainwright ~
First have being in your mind. Make real in your mind then bring that being into reality. The genius is he who sees what is not yet and causes it to come to be.
~By Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
~By Madame de Stael ~
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
~By Gore Vidal ~
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
~By Victor Hugo ~
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
~By Gertrude Stein ~
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
~By John Dryden ~
Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
~By Maurice Baring ~
To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
~By William R. Alger ~
Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
~By Alexander Smith ~
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
~By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. ~
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
~By Arthur Rimbaud ~
Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
~By Denis Diderot ~
I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man.
~By Charlton Heston ~
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.
~By Andrea Dworkin ~
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
~By Warren Beatty ~
Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.
~By Eugene Delacroix ~
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
The lucky person passes for a genius.
~By Euripides ~
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
~By Max Gluckman ~
I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.
~By Mary MacLane ~
Unless you are a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
~By Anthony Hope ~
When you're young you believe it when people tell you how good you are. And that's the danger, you inhale. Everyone will tell you you're a genius, which you are not, and if you understand that, you win.
~By George Clooney ~
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
~By Simone Weil ~
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
~By Margot Fonteyn ~
Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
~By Denis Diderot ~
Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
~By Rich Lowry ~
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
~By Cesare Lombroso ~
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
~By Louisa May Alcott ~
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
~By Lita Grey Chaplin ~
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
~By Glenn Close ~
There is no off position on the genius switch.
~By David Letterman ~
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.
~By Rush Limbaugh ~
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.
~By Billy Wilder ~
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
~By Herbert Beerbohm Tree ~
Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
Gene Roddenberry was a genius.
~By Persis Khambatta ~
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
~By Alain Prost ~
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
~By Robert Henri ~
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
~By John Denham ~
Dandyism is a variety of genius.
~By William Hazlitt ~
All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.
~By Alexander Hamilton Stephens ~
One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.
~By John W. Foster ~
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit.
~By George Grosz ~
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
~By Christopher Morley ~
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
~By Garry Marshall ~
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
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