#genius

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one! ↗

— Orson Welles

#called #denies #ever #everybody #genius

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#evil #genius #other #some #through

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#carrying #events #every #extraordinary #flows

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#common #creative #diligent #exact #experiments

I realized what you could do in motion pictures by surrounding yourself with geniuses. ↗

— Richard Donner

#geniuses #i #motion #motion pictures #pictures

I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting. ↗

— Stanley Tucci

#i #mean #scorsese #shooting #way

Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it. ↗

— Mel Torme

#buddy rich #genius #kind #rich

I have never been an innovator, a creative genius. ↗

— Lawrence Welk

#creative #creative genius #genius #i #innovator

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#authors #best #churches #colleges #common

There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#expressive #freshness #genius #humbles #illiterate