Genius Quotes - Page 59

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.

The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources

It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

True genius repeats itself forever, and never repeats itself--one ever varied sense beams novelty and unity on all.

Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.

Most geniuses are just talented people who get up really early in the morning.

R.I.P. Alexander McQueen, a kind soul and brilliant creative genius. Sad and shocking. You've touched us all.

I think Pans Labyrinth is genius.

As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.

Does research get in the way of the story? It certainly can. Anything can, given that as writers we're all geniuses at procrastination. But mostly research teaches me about the world. Which often shows me the way, in terms of the story.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.

Robert Rodriguez is a genius, and I'm a huge fan of his.

If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want.

It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part. [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Postal inspectors have been given advanced warning that Publishers Clearinghouse is sending packets of laundry detergent that could be mistaken for anthrax. Oh, good timing. What genius came up with this promotion? What's next - a ticking alarm clock? Let's put that in a box.

Ambition beats genius 99% of the time

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

As Fallingwater demonstrates, Wright's genius was always specific, but also always lively, always daring.