Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
Victor Hugo -
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 -
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!'
Cara Buono -
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 -
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
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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.
Albert Einstein
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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.
Philipp Meyer -
A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.
F. E. Smith -
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.
Brian Tracy -
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
Oscar Wilde -
Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
Zachary Cole Smith -
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
Marianne Williamson -
You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
Norman Vincent Peale -
I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.
Yaya Han -
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
Count Basie -
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton