Quotes About Genius

I think that Zappa intentionally made his music weird, but did it with intelligence.

He had black curly hair and was plainly a genius

Those women, her age and a little older, who'd all gone crazy or who were hooking in the Polo Lounge or who were married to real old movie stars and had to look old too, to match. Those occasional men of genius who, like one friend of hers, could cast the right person for the right part and never miss—never.

It has a constant tendency to the aphorism—the ripe fruit hanging on the tree of knowledge—noticeable in the writings of the higher order of men of genius; the great dramatists, the poets generally, Bacon, Burke, Franklin, Landor, and indeed most of the classic authors who pass current in the world in quotation.

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

And they want to know what we talked about? "de litteris et de armis, praestantibusque ingeniis", Both of ancient times and our own; books, arms, And of men of unusual genius.

Mozart was so precocious that, at the age of 35, he was already dead!

It was cruelly ironic that his brilliant brain cells eventually led to his demise.

The long feud between them has a certain piquant irony, because their affinity of temperament is as striking as their antipathy. In both of them the ideas of the Enlightenment were uneasily at war with the emotions of the Romantic Movement. Both had genius, and both were supreme egoists who thought that genius and the pursuit of glory put them above the ordinary rules.

Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest; let the genius within me now be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan.

It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understand. Someone had said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

Infinite Spirit, open the way for the Divine Design of my life to manifest; let the genius within me now be released; let me see clearly the perfect plan.

Someone has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face a situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

It is no wonder that the writers of the nineteenth century look upon society as an artificial creation of the legislator's genius. This idea -- the fruit of classical education -- has taken possession of all the intellectuals and famous writers of our country. To these intellectuals and writers, the relationship between persons and the legislator appears to be the same as the relationship between the clay and the potter.

It is worth our while to pay a little attention to the extent of genius required by these legislators, that we may see how, by confounding all the virtues, they showed their wisdom to the world.

A cuánta gente habrá salvado la vida Mozart?

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.

Some men have a genius for friendship. That is because they are open and responsive, and unselfish.

The genius of Barack Obama was precisely that he reached out and over the partisan divisions. He did so explicitly. The desire of some of his present-day critics to drag him back from the centre is absurd. The espousal of centrist politics is not a betrayal. It was what he promised.

But I think Cybil was my biggest fan. She cut out my articles and hung them in her locker and we were always cracking up how if you wrote the simplest, most obvious thing in the world people thought you were a genius.

I consider myself to be a genius who happens to play chess.

Genius. It's a word. What does it really mean? If I win I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not.

which begs a question. What precisely is genius? I believe that genius is not a person but a process, a process in which someone determines to uncover their gift and, for a period, is able to step inside it. The "gift" is a self-explanatory state, and like a prize awarded in a DNA lotto—say, being born into beauty or into wealth—genius is no reason for arrogance.

There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.