Quotes About Genius

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

I believe 'Sonchiriya' is a film that will be recalled with much pride and respect for many years from now. We all worked very hard to make it a special work, and the director Abhishek Sir is a genius.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

No one will ever be as good as Phil Hartman. He was such an amazing genius, and may be the best sketch performer of all time.

Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented!

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts, because the works of this genius are always works of love.

I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.

All the labours of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightnessof human genius, are destined to extinctionin the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievementmust inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins

That's my brother Germy," said Daisy. "He thinks he's a genius because he's in high school." "Jeremy," corrected the brother to Ramona and added, "Tinsel Teeth," to his sister.

As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no-one about it for twenty-seven years5.

In his secretiveness he didn't merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him.

There is almost no area of British life that isn't touched with a kind of genius for names.

Gibbs is perhaps the most brilliant person most people have never heard of. Modest to the point of near-invisibility, he passed virtually the whole of his life, apart from three years spent studying in Europe, within a three-block area bounded by his house and the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut. For his first ten years at Yale he didn't even bother to draw a salary.

the Bogdanov theory excited debate among physicists as to whether it was twaddle, a work of genius, or a hoax. 'Scientifically, it's clearly more or less complete nonsense, Columbia University physicist Peter Woit told the New York Times, 'but these days that doesn't much distinguish it from a lot of the rest of the literature.

It is right to give Thomas Edison the credit for much of this, so long as we remember that his genius was not in creating electric light, but in creating methods of producing and supplying it on a grand commercial scale, which was actually a much larger and far more challenging ambition. It was also a vastly more lucrative one.

The idea was to help women produce babies of genius by giving them the very best sperm modern science could provide. Some two hundred children were born as a result of the bank's efforts, though none, it seems, proved to be an outstanding genius or even an accomplished eyeglass engineer.