Quotes of: Great-genius Keyword

Doorman - a genius who can open the door of your car with one hand, help you in with the other, and still have one left for the tip.

Dorothy Kilgallen

It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.

Hannah Cowley

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Ben Stiller

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

James Whistler

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.

Charles Peguy

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Carl Sandburg

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

Isaac D'Israeli

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

J. G. Ballard

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Edith Hamilton

The fine line between genius and madness is a punch line. Duck, you idiot!

Brian Spellman

The difference between being able to understand something and inventing it in the first place... is called genius.

Craig Bruce

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

George Bernard Shaw

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

Gore Vidal

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

Hugh Leonard

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

J. B. Priestley

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

J.K. Rowling

A clone of Einstein wouldn't be stupid, but he wouldn't necessarily be any genius, either.

James D. Watson

I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

Christoph Waltz

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

John Denham