#genius

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #genius #lot #much #nothing

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

#genius #light #man #ordinary #ordinary man

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#been #discover #during #earlier #express

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#artistic #character #displayed #earth #genius

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour. ↗

— Fred Schneider

#geniuses #good #good sense #humour #sense

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#enough #genius #much #plenty #talent

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

— Sid Caesar

#genius #guy #idiot #invented #other

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#community #does #especially #fellow #fellow men

Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well. ↗

— Michael York

#comic #did #ever #everyone #four

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest. ↗

— Mike Norton

#bare #bloom #creative #creativity #cultivate