Genius Quotes

"I’ve concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress our genius only because we haven’t yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves."

"Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker was a genius at work, God's gift to the world. He is etched permanently in our memories."

"He's been playing great. I had nothing to do with that. It's not genius on my part; he's just playing great."

"The guy was a certifiable genius. Not quite. He was a genius."

"The first thing a genius needs is to breath free air"

"When we first uncovered the creative genius of the underground skateboard mentality of 'Jackass,' we knew it would resonate with our young adult audience."

"The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later."

"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it."

"I can't just 'Jim Carrey' something like that, ... I don't have that kind of genius. So I went and hired a clown and we did isolating exercises, where one part of your body does one thing and another part does something else. And then, at 2 in the morning, after working on it for hours, I was lying down, and I thought, 'Oh my God, I've got it now!'"

"He's an original genius,"

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"If I could figure out this team, I'd be a genius. We're all either swinging the bat well at the same time, or not."

"We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later."

"Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times"

"Genius is independent of situation."

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

"The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity."

"I am so sad. She was a great person and a genius to work with. We will all miss her."

"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous"

"He was as close as NIU got to a true genius,"