#genius

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

When you step back and watch people, you realize that we use every single body part. Movement, dance - I find it genius because it's ultimate expression, really. ↗

— Jude Law

#because #body #dance #every #expression

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#geniuses #great #mostly #mothers #sad

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. ↗

— Irving Layton

#best #genius #i #i am #keats

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

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