Genius Quotes

The first thing the world does to a genius is to make him lose all his youth.

Suspicion," he said. "Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He's a genius." "Starring Cary Grant." When Lucas gave me a look, I added, "You have your priorities, I have mine.

I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

The loss of a job may be the wake up-call needed to redeem the fire of your genius.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.

Genius has its limitations. Insanity...not so much" -Bumper Sticker

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

Everyone is a genius after the fight.

[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

Just enough sense to stick with something-a chore, task, project, until its completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber.

Earlier today, we got a call from Stephen Hawking. He's a genius, and after 6,028 shows he ran the numbers and he said it works out to about eight minutes of laughter.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

If you, my fellow copywriters or art directors, want to win the award, devote your genius to making the cash register ring.

I'm no prophet and I'm no genius, but I can only tell you what I seem to know. As a fan of television and the movies, I think it's all for the better.

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

I don't want to think that I am going to believe that I am a hell of a genius, or anything like that.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

I never met Putin, I don't know who Putin is. He said one nice thing about me. He said I'm a genius. I said thank you very much to the newspaper and that was the end of it. I never met Putin.

The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Einstein used science to get laid. That guy is a genius. I've been using money.

Sometimes things are nothing on paper, but a genius director turns it into something amazing.

Remember when those CD-ROMs from AOL came in the mail almost every day? The company was considered ubiquitous, invincible. Former AOL CEO Steve Case was no less a genius than Mark Zuckerberg.

Love of liberty means the guarding of every resource that makes freedom possible-from the sanctity of our families and the wealth of our soil to the genius [of] our scientists.

A good title is a work of a genius!

Todd [Phillips] doesn't care. That's part of his genius as a director, he will say anything to anybody.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves.

O liberty, Parent of happiness, celestial born When the first man became a living soul; His sacred genius thou.

However smothered under former negligence, or scattered through the dull, dark mass of common thoughts - let thy genius rise as the sun from chaos.

Modest expression is a beautiful setting to the diamond of talent and genius.

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.

We are assumed to be rather hopeless - swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Discretion is deadly to genius; ruinous to talent.

Elisa Albert in a nutshell: funny, self-aware, and genuinely fearless that she might be a lunatic, or a genius, or both.