#genius

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it. ↗

— Horace

#conceals #genius #prosperity #reveals

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be. ↗

— James Lipton

#easier #geniuses #make #out #than

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#difference #friendship #genius #love #neatness

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#else #genius #given #more #none

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#country #full #genius #ireland #problem

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#beaten path #genius #hitherto #path #regions

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

— Mary Todd Lincoln

#evil #genius #me #more #procrastination

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

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius. ↗

— Debi Mazar

#cooks #genius #grew #heavier #husband

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different