If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
Sol Robeson: This is insanity, Max. Maximillian Cohen: Or maybe it's genius.
Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
Music looks very formidable to people outside of it and it looks like it's this realm of spooky genius.
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
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