Quotes of: True-genius Keyword

Despair and Genius are too oft connected

Byron Poems

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

Simon Schama

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Sylvester

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

Francis Herbert Hedge

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

George Henry Lewes

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

Oscar Wilde

I'm no genius, but I'm real smart in one area - I picked the right mate.

Rob Lowe

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.

Thomas Gray

I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Ted McGinley

Yes, I think I am a genius, but not a rebel.

Mario Balotelli

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Margot Fonteyn

If you're a man and you ask questions, you're a genius; if you're a woman, you're difficult.

Martine McCutcheon

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Paul Cezanne

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Marilyn Monroe

I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius.

Jasper Carrott

David Ortiz is a genius. He's incredible to watch. Over and over, he hits home runs that are simply transcendent.

Juliana Hatfield

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

George Eliot

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

Ken Burns

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Louis Aragon

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Samuel Goldwyn