I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can...

Genie währt länger als Schönheit.

The word “travel” comes from the Old French word “travail” (or “travailler”), which means “to work, to labor; a suffering or painful effort, an arduous journey, a tormenting experience.” (“Travel,” thus, is “a painful and...

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

Quentin Tarantino is a genius. I want to do every single film with him.

Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede – not because it has a hundred feet, but because most people can’t count...

Look for the person everyone hates, and love them.

There is no such thing as an evil genius, as evil in it’s self is stupidity.

There is no greater cruelty than a genius stumbling over something idiotic.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I’ve ever known with an I.Q. of 60.

It’s always darkest before you’re blinded by the light

On, I don’t think I’m a genius!’ cried Josie, growing calm and sober as she listened to the melodious voice and looked into the expressive face that filled her with confidence, so strong, sincere and...

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

WHORES.Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius.

Now that I’m on Broadway, it’s like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, ‘Venus in Fur’; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind...

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau’s assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

I think I just blew my own mind.

Wyatt avoided the petty gunfights and headed to a saloon and rigged up a bunch of Molotov cocktails. Her firebombs against members of Tom and Vik’s posse had destroyed the scenario’s promise of so many...

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being...

Il genio è un africano che vede in sogno la neve.

Doesn’t matter. He will get better. He will finish the season at .300-something. Ichiro is a genius.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one...

Intelligence entails a strong mind, but genius entails a heart of a lion in tune with a strong mind.

The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore “the giant agony of the world” and live, except...

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

All geniuses die young.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

A true genius is my brother, for his ability to measure and adapt his imagination to knowledge is unbounded. He can turn laziness into tactics. He can drop tactics for strategy without anyone or anything...

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling…and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and...

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

Really maximize your opportunity to learn from Donald Trump. He is truly a genius and a brilliant negotiator.

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

We never expected or desired to produce a Byron, a Napoleon, or a Michelangelo.” You know you’ve reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.

Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. […] Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense...

Genius Borrows nobly.

I think MacGregor might be a genius. Anyone so oblivious to the horror of the human world must be.

Even if he did explain it, no one would believe him because no one would understand him. That’s the downside to being a genius – just because you understand something doesn’t mean anyone else will.

In order to start our mythic journey to end our suffering, we need to enter into a real and dynamic dialogue with our hearts. Start by writing a letter to your heart, telling it all...

Perhaps if I had made his life more difficult, he would have written less, or less freely. I cannot claim to be the midwife to genius, but if I have not facilitated,I have at least...

Color me….BRILLIANT.

Christianity, like genius, is one of the hardest concepts to forgive. We hear what we want to hear and accept what we want to accept, for the most part, simply because there is nothing more...

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

I can’t charge you 99 cents for a book called 99 Cents For Some Nonsense, because that would make sense. However, I have to charge you 99 cents, because it makes sense not to. So...