#genius

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#allowed #freedom #general #genius #insight

Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disorder #gaiety #genius #machine #men

The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#empty #flamboyant #genius #labels #luggage

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#genius #powerful #sometimes

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. ↗

— Ethan Embry

#even #first #genius #haven #i

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

#clothed #found #genius #gray #more

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long. ↗

— Israel Zangwill

#hair #men

Conceit spoils the finest genius. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#genius

I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve. Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation. ↗

— Mark E. Smith

#genius #music #paranoid #ranting #the-fall

Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because of the way he took advantage of the world's defects. -pg 129 ↗

— Albert Sánchez Piñol

#geniuses #nature