In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

I admire Russell Simmons. He is a successful dude that has done a little bit of everything. He keeps it moving, and he’s still doing things. Larry David is also amazing. He is honest and blunt. A creative genius.

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

If you are a genius, you’ll make your own rules, but if not – and the odds are against it – go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper – write.

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

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.

You know, I’m a creative genius and there’s no other way to word it.

For me to say I wasn’t a genius, I would just be lying to you and to myself.

I’m A Really, Really, Smart, Multi-Talented Almost-Genius, Who’s Very Annoying

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius

America’s genius has always been to take something old, familiar and wrinkled and repackage it as new, exciting and smooth

Sometimes a book isn’t a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.

A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration

The grammarians burst with anger at our blunders but those of the next century pick them up as genius of the language. So rest assured: there is no lawsuit. See you in the third millennium.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Once genius is submerged by bureaucracy, a nation is doomed to mediocrity.

How slim the line is between genius and insanity and between determination and stubbornness.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Everyone is born a genius.

There is no such thing as genius, some children are just less damaged than others.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.

Nobody plays this life with marked cards, so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return, do not expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood.

You smart! You are loyal! You’re a genius.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

It will work. I am a marketing genius.

Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar genius, he cannot succeed. I am glad to believe that the majority of persons do find their right vocation.

Every positive value has its price in negative terms… the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

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.

Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.

Genius … is necessarily intolerant of fetters.

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn’t paint.

Genius is patience.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.