All Quotes

Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
‐‐ Edmond de Goncourt

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
‐‐ Edward Dahlberg

Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
‐‐ Christian Nestell Bovee

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
‐‐ Charles Bukowski

Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
‐‐ John Dryden

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.
‐‐ Robert Graves

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
‐‐ Mary MacLane

Genius, scholar, and war hero though he is, you have to admit - or maybe you should think about admitting - that George Bush might have rushed things a little in invading Iraq.
‐‐ Alan Colmes

Genius: the superhuman in man.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
‐‐ Franz Grillparzer

Genius, when young, is divine.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
‐‐ Hannah More

Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
‐‐ Clive Bell

Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
‐‐ James Lipton

Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may lead you to others. Collaborate with geniuses. Send them your spells. Look carefully at theirs. What could you do together? Combination is creation.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

Geniuses sometimes end up very unhappy, without a penny.
‐‐ Anthony Mann

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisputably sanction social and political discrimination.
‐‐ Andrea Dworkin

Genocide is an attempt to exterminate a people, not to alter their behavior.
‐‐ Jack Schwartz

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

Genome-based treatment, based on wider and cheaper availability of genome data, will provide new ways to customize the therapeutic protocol and enhance our control over diseases and medical treatment.
‐‐ Nayef Al-Rodhan

Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Genome sequencing has changed taxonomy.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Genomic science, as the newest frontier in scholarly research, is throwing open the door to a revolutionary way of approaching our health, the health and welfare of animals, and the sustainability of our environment.
‐‐ John Sharp

Genomics are about individuals. It's about what's specific to you, not your siblings, not your parents - each of us is totally unique. We will only see that uniqueness by drilling down to the genetic code.
‐‐ Craig Venter

Genomics is a new idea. Like the PC, it's not obvious at first that anyone would want one. It's like, 'Hey, we've already got one genome, why do we need more?'
‐‐ George M. Church

Genre aside, I'd like to make a film about people.
‐‐ Sophie Marceau

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.
‐‐ Esperanza Spalding

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
‐‐ Tanith Lee

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.
‐‐ David Ayer

Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem.
‐‐ Rick Moody

Genre might certainly increase some of your narrative freedoms, but it also diminishes others. That's the nature of genre.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

Genre pleasures are many, but the quality of shared values within an ongoing discussion may be the most powerful, enlisting lifelong devotion in its fans.
‐‐ Gregory Benford

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.
‐‐ Jason Mraz

Genre stuff is the most exciting stuff for an actor to play. I get to try new things, do things I would have never got the chance to do.
‐‐ Amy Acker

Genre, to me, is not all that important, and it never has been.
‐‐ Amos Lee

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Genres do exist because frequent users of any large bookstore can instantly tell what any piece of fiction is supposed to be about by its title, its cover and its location in the shop.
‐‐ John Clute

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
‐‐ Robin Williams

Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone.
‐‐ John Ciardi

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
‐‐ Simon Raven

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.
‐‐ Henry L. Stimson

Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practiced.
‐‐ Robert Walpole

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.
‐‐ Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there's nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
‐‐ Roy Bean

Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine.
‐‐ Frank Whittle