Genius Quotes
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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.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.
R. Kelly
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Irving Layton
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
Ted McGinley
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Otto Weininger
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
Tabatha Coffey
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There's a genius in all of us.
Albert Einstein
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
Hannah Gadsby
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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.
Nancy Gibbs
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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.
Igor Stravinsky
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson
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Martin Freeman is a genius, he really is. He gives you every color of the rainbow in every take and it's wonderful just to play off of him and opposite him.
Lara Pulver
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I never said I was a genius.
Orson Welles
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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
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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.
Lord Byron
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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.
Oscar Wilde
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
Wayne Dyer
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
Randy Newman
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Otto Weininger
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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
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Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. Priestley