#us

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success ↗

— Ian Fleming

#genius

All geniuses die young. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#genius #young #genius

A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#genius

Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence...Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#reading #genius

Idiot. Which road do you take when you're running from something weaker than yourself? Or maybe you're the one looking for an excuse to back out. ↗

— Watsuki Nobuhiro

#excuses #manga #rurouni-kenshin #cowardice

That was so completely unfair that I told Tantalus to go chase a donut, which didn't help his mood. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#percy #tantalus #sea

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#ships #the-night-circus #sea

Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#amulet-of-samarkand #bartimaeus-trilogy #jonathan-stroud #ambition

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#determination #excuses #failure #perserverance #success

The King had advertised the old magic tea set, but for some reason, no one wanted sugar teeth that could gouge their eyes out. ↗

— Heather Dixon

#magic #advertising