There is in the DNA of the Italians a bit of madness, which in the overwhelming majority of cases is positive. It is genius. It is talent. It's the masterpieces of art. It's the food, fashion, everything that makes Italy great in the world.
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius - but when I see Charlie Chaplin's movies there is a combination of drama, naivety and social meaning that I can see in myself, at a different level.
From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages including, as he puts it, the language of flattery and essentially, to be able to turn people to her will - rea...
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of...
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
Adriana: Let's go! Ernest Hemingway: One of these days I plan to steal you away from this genius [points to Picasso] Ernest Hemingway: who's great... But... he's no Miro.
I have never been an innovator, a creative genius.
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
L'oncle Irvin: [after Krank's latest failiure] Who stole the child's dreams? Krank, in his evil schemes. But the happy tale had a sting in it's tail. The genius has a fit of pique, hear the genius shriek, the 'genius' is up a creek.
Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
I'm not exactly a maths genius - I'm really good at maths, maths was my favorite subject in school, but I wasn't a genius.
Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness
A true genius admits that he/she knows nothing.
I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.
If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on whi...
Genius: Range of mind, power of imagination, and responsiveness of soul: this is genius. The man of genius has a soul with greater range, can therefore be struck by the feelings of all beings, is concerned with everything in nature, and never receive...
...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...
I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
