Genius Quotes - Page 40

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

There is a genius in every man and woman, waiting to be brought forth.

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

Genius: the superhuman in man.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

Les Miles looks like the mad science genius.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

There have been countless changes in the long history of art. The most significant have been brought about by the genius of a single artist.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses.

Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius.

No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me

There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling.

My job is to make a film that can sit as a standalone piece, that if it's the only Marvel film you see, it's a great film with a great story in and of itself. The lucky thing is that there's a bunch of geniuses who run Marvel that make sure, even if it's a standalone piece, that it's part of a great big jigsaw puzzle that could be appreciated as a whole as well.

Every sun casts a shadow, and genius's shadow is Resistance.

...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.

Sleeping is the height of genius

I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" He said "I have nothing to declare but my genius." I said "I'll put that down as nothing then shall I?" For I am the wittiest man on Earth.

Englishmen have a genius for looking uncomfortable. Their feelings are terribly mixed up with their personal appearance.

Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies, and animates.

There is no gap as wide as the one between mediocrity and genius.

Follow a trail of bold mistakes and at the end of them you will find a genius.

Sweet Genius'' viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous.

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.