Genius Quotes

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.

Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

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.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Talent is a faculty that is highly developed, but genius commands all the faculties.

I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured.

The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.

The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

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

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then the mind grows heated. Begin, and then the work will be completed.