#genius

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

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#become #escape #expecting #factory #factory worker

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#been #chief #chief danger #contained #courage

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#genius #industry #life #like

It is always well to get near to men of genius. ↗

— William Henry Moody

#genius #get #men #near #well

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. ↗

— Hannah More

#darkness #gate #genius #gleam #inhabitant

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. ↗

— Joe Theismann

#einstein #football #genius #guy #like

If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go through it to much the same standard. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#correct #cuts #down #educational #genius

The meetings of the legislature at Springfield then first brought together that splendid group of young men of genius whose phenomenal careers and distinguished services have given Illinois fame in the history of the nation. ↗

— John George Nicolay

#careers #distinguished #fame #first #genius

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning. ↗

— Peter York

#beauty #cunning #genius #high #high level