Genius Quotes

If geniuses can sometimes make mistakes, cannot the rest of us on occasion be geniuses?

It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all time was South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Team America is a work of genius to me.

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

From one sublime genius-NEWTON-more light has proceeded than the labour of a thousand years preceding had been able to produce.

Nothing is more piquant than when a man of genius possesses mannerisms; not so when they possess him -- this leads to spiritual petrification.

Wit is absolutely sociable spirit or aphoristic genius.

I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.

I am worthy of being read. I mean, one has to be convinced of one's genius.

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

Genius is the ability to see the self-evident where the rest of the world turns blind.

I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art - to raise the genius and to mend the heart.

I believe in the God-given genius of certain individuals, and I value a society that makes their existence possible.

I so owed Arianna, that undead little genius.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

Children are geniuses.

I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."

Jack Benny, Fred Allen. Their jokes were wonderful. It takes skill to be funny. The timing of Jack Benny was so fine. It is a form of genius for which we should be grateful.

George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses.

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.

[In 2011 on Steve Jobs] He was the most amazing person I have ever know. He was a genius. He was an innovator. He was the best client we ever had. He was my friend.

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity, and in Larry's (MacPhail) case it was sometimes so thin you could see him drifting back and forth.

There is a genius on one side of every trade and a dolt on the other, but which is which does not become clear until much later.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

I think the combination of genius and celebrity, in the case of Bobby Fischer, was a dangerous cocktail.

Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.

All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. Once when it matters.

Talent may be in time forgiven, but genius never

I really cannot know whether I am or am not the Genius you are pleased to call me, but I am very willing to put up with the mistake, if it be one.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.

Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.

My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization.

Sometimes [genius] is just the thing that emerges after twenty years of working at your kitchen table.

I was never a prodigy. I was never a child genius.

The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.