There's been so many different types of musicals, and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.
Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not....Genius will not....Education will not....Persistence and determination are omnipotent.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
Pretend you are a foolish to the tyrant – because if he realizes you are a genius, he might use you to harm others.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we've had in quite a long time, if ever.
President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!
What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.
I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
