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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. -- Butler, Samuel | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Butler, Samuel at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. -- Adams, Joey Lauren | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Adams, Joey Lauren at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression. -- Pound, Ezra | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Pound, Ezra at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Emerson, Ralph Waldo at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Accept your genius and say what you think. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Emerson, Ralph Waldo at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself. -- Kline, Peter | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Kline, Peter at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius. -- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. -- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly. -- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Gasset, Jose Ortega Y at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Emerson, Ralph Waldo at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. -- Amiel, Henri Frederic | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Amiel, Henri Frederic at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Every man is a potential genius until he does something. -- Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. -- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Every person of genius is considerably helped by being dead. -- Lund, Robert S. | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Lund, Robert S. at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Everybody denies I am a genius --but nobody ever called me one! -- Welles, Orson | Genius Send to friend | View Books by Welles, Orson at Amazon.com | Books about Genius at Amazon.com Quote: 1-15 of 125 Pages: 1 of 9 next  View all quotes