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Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

What most readers do not realize is that it takes a particular genius to write funny, to satirize.

Quotes by F. Sionil Jose

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Quotes by Ezra Pound

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Quotes by Ezra Pound

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

Quotes by Evgeny Morozov

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Quotes by Euripides

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

Quotes by Eugene Delacroix

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Quotes by Eugene Delacroix

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

Quotes by Ethan Embry

It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense.

Quotes by Eric Ripert

The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.

Quotes by Eric Fellner

I think 'Game Of Thrones' has been genius, and I really don't want it to end. Every episode is huge. It's totally immense, and the actors are all fantastic in it. It has totally drawn me in.

Quotes by Eric Balfour

Ozil is a genius. He has one-of-a-kind vision for the game. He has two eyes in the front of his head and two eyes in the back.

Quotes by Emmanuel Adebayor

Jennifer Aniston is a genius.

Quotes by Emma Roberts

Most people only remember Maradona for the bad parts now. But he was a genius, someone who lifted us and himself up to the level of the gods.

Quotes by Emir Kusturica

When I was younger, my dad taught me how to cook. He's a genius in the kitchen. I went to Vietnam with my parents, and I went on a cooking course with him.

Quotes by Ellie Bamber

Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

Quotes by Ellen Key

There are very few things of virtuosity or genius that you can actually witness.

Quotes by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

Every one of you is a super genius if you just focus your common sense.

Quotes by Eliyahu Goldratt

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

Elbert Hubbard

Taste is the feminine of genius.

Quotes by Edward Fitzgerald

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Quotes by Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Quotes by Edward Gibbon

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Quotes by Edward Dahlberg

The manager believes soccer is a science and the field a laboratory, but the genius of Einstein and the subtlety of Freud is not enough for the owners and the fans. They want a miracle worker like Our Lady of Lourdes, with the stamina of Gandhi.

Quotes by Eduardo Galeano

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

Quotes by Edmund Spenser

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

Quotes by Edmund Wilson

It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective - and get him off our minds.

Quotes by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Quotes by Edmond de Goncourt

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

Quotes by Edgard Varese

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Edgar Allan Poe

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Quotes by E. T. A. Hoffmann

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Quotes by E. B. White

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Quotes by E. F. Schumacher

My dad is very down to earth, and I view him as a creative genius, and I am very proud of that.

Quotes by Dylan Lauren

Talking about Pep is hard, he is just a genius. He tries to change things when we need to and it works. He is something else.

Quotes by Douglas Costa

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

Quotes by Douglas Fairbanks

There's a certain amount of screwball and genius in 'Willy Wonka.'

Quotes by Douglas Hodge

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.

Quotes by Dorothy Kilgallen

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

Quotes by Donald G. Mitchell

Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.

Quotes by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Nina Simone is a musical genius and a rich and precious treasure who paid a heavy price for her artistic freedom.

Quotes by Dianne Reeves

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.

Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.

Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere.

Quotes by Diana Wynne Jones

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

Quotes by Dennis Ritchie

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Quotes by Denis Diderot

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Quotes by Denis Diderot

#TimesUp is you can't hold it in anymore: Time's up! The doors have to give way. It can't be that every 27-year-old born into a male body is a designated genius. It can't be that the language used to review male and female films is different.

Quotes by Debra Granik

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

Quotes by Debi Mazar

Maybe you've decided you're not a genius, that you're not brilliant, that you're not prosperous, that you're not wonderful, that you're not lovable. Well, you know what? You're both: you're unlovable and you are lovable. And they both need equal time.

Quotes by Debbie Ford

There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

Quotes by David Ogilvy

First, make yourself a reputation for being a creative genius. Second, surround yourself with partners who are better than you are. Third, leave them to go get on with it.

Quotes by David Ogilvy

I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.

Quotes by David Morrissey

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Quotes by David Low

There is no off position on the genius switch.

Quotes by David Letterman

Karina Longworth, the genius behind 'You Must Remember This', has quite correctly spun off her series about the Sharon Tate murders as a separate podcast called 'You Must Remember Manson' to mark the passing of the man who unleashed hell because he couldn't get a recording contract.

Quotes by David Hepworth

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

Quotes by David Hanson

I became a genius on 'Ed,' though I'm not sure it was very convincing.

Quotes by David Eigenberg

Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.

Quotes by David Benioff

That's the great thing about being a teenager. You think you're a genius.

Quotes by Daveed Diggs

Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.

Quotes by Dave Chappelle

Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.

Quotes by Daryl Davis

I am so thankful for the genius of Phil Spector, for his recognition of my talent to be the main voice of his Wall of Sound.

Quotes by Darlene Love

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job.

Quotes by Darrell Issa

As a little girl, I didn't dream of being a ballet dancer; I dreamt of being a movie star like Ginger Rogers and dancing with Fred Astaire. I used to watch the Sunday double-bills on TV and Iong to be part of what seemed a perfect Disneyland world. Astaire was a genius.

Quotes by Darcey Bussell

Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

Quotes by Daniel Tammet

'Get Out' was born out of the genius mind of Jordan Peele, to whom I will be forever grateful for believing in me and allowing me to help him tell a story so dear to him.

Quotes by Daniel Kaluuya

I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

Quotes by Daniel J. Boorstin

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.

Quotes by Dan Harmon

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Quotes by Dan Hill

The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

Quotes by Damian Woetzel

It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.

Quotes by Damien Chazelle

No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.

Quotes by Damien Hirst

Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.

Quotes by Damien Hirst

With so many delicious varieties and flavors ranging from subtle to bold, Keebler and Carr's crackers are an unexpectedly genius way to celebrate leftovers and serve up one-of-a-kind recipes.

Quotes by Damaris Phillips

The greatest natural resource our country has is not oil. It's not gas. It's not coal. It's the genius of our children.

Quotes by Cory Booker

I've never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves - it's just a question of finding the subject.

Quotes by Clint Eastwood

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.

Quotes by Clive Bell

You see the genius that Whitney Houston has as an interpreter of material, and you realize why genius can be applied to only a few interpretive performers. She finds meaning and depth and soulfulness in a song that often the writer and composer never really knew was there.

Quotes by Clive Davis

The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we'd forgo unique, lovely design.

Quotes by Clive Thompson

Genius is nothing but continued attention.

Quotes by Claude Adrien Helvetius

The problem with traditional pie weights is you never have enough and they're expensive. Common substitutes like dried beans just aren't heavy enough to do the job. Our genius solution? Small steel balls that fit inside ball bearings and that can be purchased at any hardware store.

Quotes by Claire Saffitz

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate.

Quotes by Claire McCaskill

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

Quotes by Christopher Morley

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

Quotes by Christopher Priest

The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.

Quotes by Christopher McCulloch

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

Quotes by Christoph Waltz

Joss Whedon who created 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer,' 'Angel,' and all that... he is a genius.

Quotes by Christian Kane

The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!

Quotes by Chris Riddell

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.

Quotes by Chris Lilley

I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.

Quotes by Chris Diamantopoulos

Indians take great pleasure in celebrating a genius, and then go into mindless criticism once the celebrity starts doing well.

Quotes by Chinmayi

And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

Quotes by Chauncey Wright

Many people think I am an idiot. I think I am a genius.

Quotes by Charo

I really want to work with Chris Martin. I think he's a genius.

Quotes by Charli XCX

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

Quotes by Charlie Chaplin

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Quotes by Charles Peguy

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