Genius Quotes - Page 62

Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.

The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

To be sure, dictators are crafty, evil geniuses with awesome firepower at their disposal. They are also brutally efficient at intimidation, terrorism, and mass slaughter. However, a force is able to dominate because the counterforce is either nonexistent or weak.

The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

Messi always makes the right decision, whether it's a pass or a finish. He's a little genius.

A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier Marías sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He's a genius.

When you realize there are geniuses out there and you'd be a journeyman... that's not good enough. I'd rather be the person helping those who are one in a billion get their vision out.

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.

I still can't understand how Cecil and my old tutor, Fitz, got along so well, when we often called Fitz 'the Genius' and avoided calling Cecil anything at all, so as not to be rude.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.

The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

Even if you're a genius and you invent your own language, it doesn't become a language until there are people using it.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

Everything Will Ferrell says during scenes is so funny and so natural. I was amazed at his genius.

Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.