#genius

She was a genius, my mother. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#mother #she

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#complicated #genius #make #might #missing

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#clever #geniuses #i #i do #i think

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #been #blood #cleaned #genius

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job. ↗

— Darrell Issa

#dollars #federal #federal spending #genius #hundreds

It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#genius #knows #lucky

Then I heard this genius teacher Stella Adler - I recommend you read anything you might find about her and if you have anyone interested in theatre, you get them one of her books. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#adler #anyone #anything #books #find

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

— Jack Kemp

#affirmative #affirmative action #american #american idea #antithetical

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#ends #flute #genius #good #had