Genius Quotes
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Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
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Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
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There are only one or two geniuses every century.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.
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It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.
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Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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There's a genius in all of us.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
