Anthony Trollope Quotes
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.Anthony Trollope
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
What's genius about 'Gravity' is that you are close upon the actors, but 3D works best when you have foreground, middle ground and background.
Gavin Hood -
I don't sleep enough, and it does... what is the opposite of wonders... horrors. It does horrors for my skin.
Kate McKinnon -
I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
Kate Moss -
We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
Navjot Singh Sidhu -
To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
Madeleine Albright
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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.
Jack Kemp -
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 -
I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
Just let your skin breathe.
Felicity Huffman -
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 -
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 -
Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.
Yuna -
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.
Isaac D'Israeli
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The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
Fernand Braudel -
Who else but the maestro of mathematical creativity, Clifford Pickover, to curate a museum of Strange Brains and write biographies of the scientific geniuses who formerly owned them? I'll never look at a pigeon, a pearl, or a Wheatstone bridge the same way again.
Mark Frauenfelder -
Because you are a great lord, you think you are a great genius! . . . Nobility, wealth ... You went to the trouble of being born—nothing more! For the rest—a very ordinary man!
Pierre Beaumarchais -
Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.
Ernest Dimnet -
First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.
Geri Halliwell Spice Girls -
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.
Anthony Trollope