Genius Quotes
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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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.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Firstly, I’m a genius. Musically, culturally, everything.
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I've done all the table reads for Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for all the pirate movies, because he's just been doing other stuff, and I just love the whole Jack Sparrow thing he's got going on; it is just genius, and I just think he has so much fun with it.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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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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The step between genius and insanity is very short.
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I never said I was a genius.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Every great genius has an admixture of madness.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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The one who was born a genius can't win against the one who tries, and the one who tries can't win against the one who enjoys.
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I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.
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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!
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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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Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.
