Genius Quotes - Page 55

Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer.

There is no so wretched and coarse a soul wherein some particular faculty is not seen to shine.

I love Seth Rogen's line in which he talks about how you can be both a genius and decent at the same time.

I see these other actors come up with this tough-guy personas and now when they're on talk shows they're all... But that's not really the way they are. I probably could have used a little bit of that. At one point I was labeled "The King Of Dumb White Guys." I was offended by that when I was younger, but I understand what that's from, so I was like, "Only a genius can play a fool." But I'm very aware of that, and I'll play into it and use it however I need to use it.

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Spring is the ultimate genius of the existence and the utter ladder of the lovers ascending to the infinity.

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool.

It is impossible for a dove to catch a swallow, for a clever man to catch a genius.

Physicians can't really dictate our protocols. They can inform us to the extent that they can as to what would best serve us, because we're not medical geniuses, no human being is, but intrinsically there is inside of each one of us, the knowing of what's going on.

when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

All geniuses born women are lost to the public good.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

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.

I began to be a woman at twelve, or more properly, a genius.

Genius may be for an hour or a thousand years; its indispensable quality is continuity with the life-push.

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.

This was Shakespeare's form ; Who walk'd in every path of human life, Felt every passion ; and to all mankind Doth now, will ever, that experience yield Which his own genius only could acquire.