#genius

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season. ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

#evil #genius #me #more #procrastination

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#genius #knows #law #only #which

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#does #genius #grows #life #never

Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #constituted #deeply

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. ↗

— Robert Staughton Lynd

#considerably #dead #every #every man #genius

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#amused #be happy #does #expected #genius

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#clever #crude #enough #genius #girl

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#civilized #genius #great #hold #most

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#fertilize #genius #interpret #itself #much

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#demented #fire #genius #i #maybe