Genius Quotes

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Anthony Hope

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Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

Orson Welles

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George Saunders's 'Lincoln in the Bardo' is a hands-down masterpiece - the subject of Abraham Lincoln and the genius of this author is a perfect union.

Jeffrey Tambor

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Robert Zemeckis is a genius filmmaker who is an amazing individual. I feel really blessed that I've gotten to work with him on many different occasions.

Charles Fleischer

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I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.

Artie Lange

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Oscar Wilde

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There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some middle ground.

Michael Eisner

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Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

Bill Nighy

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Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.

William Gilmore Simms

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I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

Nat King Cole

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I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius.

Amy Poehler

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Hendrix was a natural genius who played many beautiful styles. Talent as great as his doesn't come through life very frequently. Hendrix was one in a billion.

Alex Lifeson

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If 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 Hazlitt

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I saw 'Hamilton' when it was at the Public, and I just wept profusely in my seat because this is a form I love deeply, and to watch it be reinvented in such a genius, gifted way and executed by such a brilliant company of human beings, I was overwhelmed with not just appreciation for the piece of work itself but for the possibility.

Mandy Patinkin

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If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?

Amanda Crew

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I wish - I wish instead of just recommending these books, I could set them down at your doorstep. The collected stories of John Updike, the second volume of T.C. Boyle's collected stories, and Stanley Crouch's book about the rise and times of our genius saxophone player Charlie Parker. These are deep books, books that you can get lost in.

Alan Cheuse

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Iniesta is a true football genius, and we should all give thanks not only for what he has done but what he's continuing to do.

Philippe Coutinho

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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.

Laura Benanti

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Some of the best ideas come from sheer discovery, and not by some masterminded, preconceived genius.

Spike Jonze

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I think I am the Elizabeth Barrett of 2015. Not in terms of genius but in bed a lot.

Viv Albertine

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Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.

Pharrell Williams

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My grandfather was a church organist and would sing in choirs and was a musical genius to a certain extent.

Jack Garratt

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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the other three, he was a genius.

Sid Caesar

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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