Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Quotes to Explore
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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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.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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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.
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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.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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Maybe all people with minds like Isaac's were the same. She knew he would make a much larger contribution than she ever would - he cared only about things much bigger than his own life. Ideas, truths, the reasons things were. As if he himself, his own existence, was somehow incidental.
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A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
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Before I was a genius I was a drudge.
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An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
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Patience is eternal genius.
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I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.
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I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than the lives that might be lost if the plan failed. In other words I acted exactly as Voldemort expects we fools who love to act.
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We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic.
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
