#genius

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#crowd #genius #good #good sense #great

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#birth #equivalent #genius #great #great genius

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. ↗

— Cesare Lombroso

#exception #exceptional #geniuses #goodness #honor

It's not that complicated. If you hear something and it makes you want to hear it again, that's the ticket. You have to be lucky enough to find geniuses, welcome them and get out of their way. ↗

— Jerry Moss

#complicated #enough #find #geniuses #get

Genius is an African who dreams up snow. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#dreams #genius #snow #up #who

I'm a big fan of '30 Rock,' which I think is the most genius show on television. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#big fan #fan #genius #i #i think

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. ↗

— Malcolm Cowley

#possess #possesses #talent #you

I think one of the geniuses of Bound and The Matrix and Memento is the complete collaboration of the effort. There were no rotten apples. ↗

— Joe Pantoliano

#bound #collaboration #complete #effort #geniuses

Making 'Birdsong,' on the one hand you have how prestigious it is and the reputation of the book, which is something that's an extraordinary piece of work. Sebastian Faulkes is a genius. So you feel that responsibility when you're portraying that character that he's imagined and millions of readers have pictured. ↗

— Eddie Redmayne

#character #extraordinary #feel #genius #hand

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#brothers #clown #columbus #does #fact