Genius Quotes - page 48

I believe that Ryan Murphy is a genius. His instincts remind me of Andy Warhol. I recently went to the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, and you can see a lot of echoes of Andy in Ryan's work. Like Andy, Ryan's finger is so on the pulse of culture that he's ahead of culture. Their aesthetic and their vision of the world are very similar. (Dylan McDermott)
You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job. View quote
Darrell Issa
Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played. View quote
Dave Lombardo
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists. View quote
Eric Ries
It's a very naive idea to think that the chef is cooking everything, and, on top of it, is irreplaceable. That would mean that basically he is the only genius, and there are idiots all around him, which doesn't make sense. View quote
Eric Ripert
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. View quote
Ethan Embry
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. View quote
Eugene H. Peterson
It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank. View quote
Evgeny Morozov
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. View quote
Gail Carson Levine
A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius. (George Edward Woodberry)
Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor embodies in his person, another's work; only thus does he understand art, realize it, know it; and having arrived at this, his task is done. View quote
George Edward Woodberry
The secret of science is to ask the right question, and it is the choice of problem more than anything else that marks the man of genius in the scientific world. View quote
Henry Tizard
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. View quote
James Lipton
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. View quote
Janet Flanner
If you are delusional, sometimes the reality catches up with your delusion, and then all of a sudden you are a genius. View quote
Jason Calacanis
I've always been sensible with my money. I can't say I'm a business genius. View quote
Jasper Carrott
It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document. View quote
J. Reuben Clark
A few nights later, I secretly hope that I might be a genius. Why else can no amount of sleeping pills fell my brain? But in the morning my daughter asks me what a cloud is and I cannot say. View quote
Jenny Offill
I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius. (Jez Butterworth)
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept feeding it to me. So we went to see all kinds of theater. We would go to the art museum pretty much every Sunday, and I would watch her. She let me know that art was supposed to touch. View quote
Jill Scott
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around. View quote
Jimmy Carl Black
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy today. He collected folk songs, retained the melodic line, kept what words were usable and rewrote the rest. He didn't claim ownership. View quote
Jimmy Reid
All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film. View quote
Jack Nance