Freedom is the only law which genius knows.
My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
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.
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.
I admire Johann Strauss a lot. I believe he was a genius of his time.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
I don't think I'm a genius. Not yet.
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.
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.
I'm a musical genius.
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.
Genius is initiative on fire.
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something.
A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Everyone around me says, You're a genius! You're great! That's your voice! But I'm not sure if they're right.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
I do feel very strongly that this is one of the things which people need encouragement to sort out, because I have this very strong feeling that everybody is probably a genius at something, it's just a question of finding this.
Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
