Salvador Dali Quotes

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.

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• At the Department of Justice, our ability to fulfill our responsibilities - to advocate for victims, to vigorously pursue misconduct, to seek justice in all its forms - depends on public confidence in the institutions we represent.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Justice
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Done

• Every one of us, no matter how damaged or abnormal or shut down, we're all looking for love. Every person needs love in this world, but our views on what love is vary enormously.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • World
  • Love
  • Love Is

• If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • True
  • Reality

• You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Protect

• I'm not a wimpy kid at all. I don't care what other people think - I only care what I think about myself.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • People
  • Myself
  • Care

• We journalists don't have to step on roaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scutter.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Light
  • Kitchen
  • Step

• New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception - space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Small
  • Space

• Having competed themselves, my father and my uncle are very passionate about motorsport, so I inherited it from them.

  

  Pastor Maldonado
  • Father
  • Passionate
  • Uncle

• I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Before
  • Upset
  • Be Careful

• I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Ideas
  • Years
  • Programming

• I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• Rome is a city where in every corner you have a reminder of the sacred world. That's why I have sacred music, minimalist sacred music, which is also music I like, because at the end of the day, that's what I want to do.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • World
  • Music
  • Why

• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Criticism
  • Form
  • Boredom

• The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Men
  • Country
  • Strong

• I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • School
  • Law
  • Back To School

• A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Wise

• The attempts to command the climate and decide about the temperature on our planet are wrong and arrogant. I wrote a book about it which was published in English under the title 'Blue Planet in Green Shackles.'

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Book
  • English
  • Blue

• The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

  

  Nicolas Maduro
  • Stability
  • Ideals
  • Contribute

• I miss the grasshoppers much, but suppose it is all for the best. I should become too much attached to a trotting world.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • World
  • Suppose
  • Grasshoppers

• The Australian Gerald Murnane, a genius on the level of Beckett, is known in Australia and Sweden but almost nowhere else. And I loved Reality Hunger, David Shields' recent novel take on the art of the novel.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Art
  • Reality
  • Genius

• If you want to kill somebody, conquer his heart, Then leave slowly and leave them between death and madness.

  

  Nizar Qabbani
  • Kill
  • Leave
  • Madness

• A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Genius
  • Remains
  • Fears

• Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Genius
  • Madness
  • Pass