I let my lads off training on Friday and took them ten-pin bowling instead because they were a bit tense. It turned out to be pure genius!
Ian HollowayThere's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Oscar LevantI'm a different style for Ronnie O'Sullivan, who's a genius, but I've just beaten the world champion. People can say what they like but I don't care.
Peter EbdonThe elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville CardusThere is generally only one genius at any one time and I think you're going to see Alonso taking on that mantle.
Jackie StewartMany a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
G H LewesAction, so to speak, is the genius of nature.
Robert BlairThe perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh HuntIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William HazlittI've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton HestonBeware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheIn men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
CiceroPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliUntil one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.
The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAttention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerFirst and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAndy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an I.Q. of 60.
Gore VidalMarlon [Brando] is such a pure piece of animal flesh. He's pan-sexual, beyond normalcy of any kind. Once in a whlie, he'll give you a few minutes of his special genius - magic time.
Roy ScheiderWe are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
Aldous HuxleyGenius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
Josh BillingsA genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman.
George Bernard ShawThis island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin BevanHe that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own
Anna Brownell JamesonAre you still hanging around? [to the ultra-pretentious Nick Robinson, BBC correspondent who speaks each word that comes out of his lips as though it is a work of sheer genius]
George W BushIt is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention.
Lyndon JohnsonGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell BoveeLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherMediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
Benjamin DisraeliA man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James JoyceBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonThe word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Virginia WoolfGenius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George-Louis De BuffonYou may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
George EliotWe should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J B PriestleyWhen my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
BeckTo see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu'Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.'
Charlie ChaplinRules and models destroy genius and art.
William HazlittCreative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.
Marshall CookGenius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent persperation.
Thomas EdisonI used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.
John LennonIf I've met three geniuses in my life, Marlon [Brando] would have to be top of the list.
Francis Ford CoppolaThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonCuriosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David HumeTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellFirst, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them go get on with it.
David OgilvyTaste is the feminine of genius
Edward FitzgeraldShort of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Charles PeguyI rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.
Richard Burton
Pick another category
|
|
|
| | Content Management System by:
|
