Vladimir Nabokov Quotes
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Federico Fellini -
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo -
Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
W. H. Auden -
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright -
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Jack Kemp
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher -
Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
Fat Joe -
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
Beck -
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. Priestley -
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.
Lara Pulver -
Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.
Wayne Dyer -
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
Thomas Carlyle -
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality.
Esther Hicks -
I've been watching a lot of A&E's 'Intervention.' I know that's sort of depressing, but I love watching it.
Vanessa Bayer -
The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.
R. C. Sproul -
Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write.
Hugo Black -
Genius is finding the invisible link between things.
Vladimir Nabokov