Genius Quotes

One of my greatest inspirations for stand-up was Jonathan Winters. He was a genius. One thing about him, and also Lenny Bruce, is that they were in the tradition of the one-man show. That's why Richard Pryor was so great, and George Carlin, too. They prowled the stage, they used voices, they were really talents.

Robert Klein

GreatGeniusTraditionWhyStage

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.

Dave Lombardo

MusicGeniusHardestPlayedEver

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

Bruce Feirstein

SuccessScienceGeniusInsanityOnly

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Quintilian

MaturityGeniusShootHappensSeldom

Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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

Charles Peguy

FriendshipLoveLove IsGeniusThan

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Aristotle

GeniusMadnessNeverWithout

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

Paris Hilton

WorkI AmGeniusMarketingWillAm

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television.

Anna Kendrick

ThinkGeniusTelevisionRockBig

Genius is independent of situation.

Charles Churchill

IntelligenceGeniusSituation

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

IntelligenceTalentGeniusTarget

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Otto Weininger

ChaosGeniusMysteryConquering

The genius of David Petraeus has always been his masterful manipulation of the media.

Michael Hastings

GeniusMediaManipulationAlwaysHis

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Cesare Lombroso

GoodGreatMenTreatGeniusPaths

A lot of chefs are traditional and do it very well. But the ones who are the most successful are the ones who change things. That is why someone like Heston Blumenthal is a genius.

Wolfgang Puck

ChangeGeniusSomeoneWhySuccessful

I actually think that I'm a genius; not to toot my own horn or anything, but I think I'm a musical genius.

O. T. Genasis

ThinkGeniusMy OwnAnythingOwn

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

John W. Foster

PowerFireGeniusOwnLighting

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary.

Betty Buckley

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

William Godwin

LearningGeniusToo MuchSpiritWho

What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'

Natalie Massenet

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I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.

John Requa

ManThinkGeniusSeriousI Think

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

Alexander Smith

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People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

William Hazlitt

WorkPeopleGeniusExcelBecause

Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.

Madame de Stael

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