Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes
Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
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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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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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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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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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Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.
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Music journalists are some of the lazy, most uninspired, dull people I've ever met...
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There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.
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Anybody can be heard. Anyone can express their truths. And communication is possible without the confines of the body.
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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
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When a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce in the same individual, we have the best possible condition for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries.
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One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
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I'm not really into style. I'm more into confidence or having something to say.
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Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.
