Top 630 Genius Quotes

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Henry Adams
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.
Bruce Feirstein
I love Stewart Lee’s ‘Comedy Vehicle’ on BBC2. The guy is a genius.
Jez Butterworth
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
Roger Ebert
I’m really into ‘Veep.’ I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
Alexander Skarsgard
No one turns down a film with Woody; it’s something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He’s such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled.
Mark Rydell
George Saunders is a complete genius.
Bill Hader
It is high time we found out about this man Cummings. Let us give him every opportunity to show us at once whether he is a genius, a charlatan, or a congenital defective – and get him off our minds.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The genius of ‘Game of Thrones’ is that in this rich imagining of a world redolent of the medieval, the rules of a Middle Ages morality play have been so thoroughly discarded.
Julia Gillard
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Madame de Stael
I love David Fincher and I think he’s a genius.
Trent Reznor
Genius is sorrow’s child.
John Adams
‘Preacher’ really appeals to my iconoclastic nature because I’m a student of comparative world religions since my early 20s, so I love shows that really challenge what you think about all these things. I think it’s genius. I was so excited there was a role I could play on it.
Betty Buckley
It’s called ‘Miles Davis, Prince of Darkness,’ and it’s about Miles Davis, the genius, and why he was the way he was, and how he changed music so many times. He changed music six times. So, I’m excited about that movie.
George Tillman, Jr.
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
Guy de Maupassant
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
Before ‘Giant,’ I had only ever worked with Michael Greif, Michael John LaChiusa and Kate Baldwin in readings. It’s really exciting to be blessed with the opportunity to work with so many I would put in the ‘genius’ book.
Aaron Lazar
Voltaire made up his mind to destroy the superstition of his time. He fought with every weapon that genius could devise or use. He was the greatest of all caricaturists, and he used this wonderful gift without mercy.
Robert Green Ingersoll
He’s a tremendous guy. And what’s more, he’s virtually a genius in the field of management.
John Wozniak
Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.
Janet Flanner
I think that there are all these amazing figures in our history – the Bowies, the Tina Turners, the Chers, the people who are, in many ways, genderless or represent ‘the other’ – and I want pop music, and other queer artists – Kehlani, Perfume Genius – these people are bringing queer narratives into people’s minds.
King Princess
This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin Bevan
Todd Rundgren is a genius, and I don’t use that word a lot.
Jim Steinman
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.
James Lipton
If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I’m the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you’re a conservative Republican, you’ve got to fight for your life. It’s really an amazing thing.
Donald Trump
The writer Richard Curtis is a genius.
Eric Fellner
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he’d have to be a genius… For he will have to feed a family on a policeman’s salary.
Paul Harvey
JR was a 1-dimensional, evil character. JR was multi-dimensional, and Larry Hagman is probably one of the greatest actors that we have. Then, you go back and look at ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ – I mean, he’s a comic genius, as well. So, I think they should give him an honorary Emmy Award.
Charlene Tilton
I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise,

I also think if you’re an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you’re just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that’s not in the commercial they think you’re a genius.
Amy Poehler
I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.
Igor Stravinsky
Sarah Corvus in ‘Bionic Woman’ was one of my favorite characters I’ve ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in ‘Sexy Evil Genius.’ I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
Katee Sackhoff
Talent and effort, combined with our various backgrounds and life experiences, has always been the lifeblood of our singular American genius.
Michelle Obama
My mother was an artist, and I was fairly good at art as a child. I was always the best drawer in class, except in second grade when an artistic genius passed through our school!
Natalie Babbitt
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Terry Pratchett
In school, I was a genius of the year preceding the year I was in, every year.
Sean Penn
Andres is a genius, and it’s an honour to share the same dressing room. I hope to learn a lot from him. Of course, there is only one Iniesta. I have come here to try to create history of my own and learn from these great players.
Philippe Coutinho
Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
Andre Breton
When things don’t go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.
Tom Perrotta
Genius is childhood recalled at will.
Charles Baudelaire
I am shocked and deeply saddened by McQueen’s death. He was a genius, and his talent was second to none. Like many others, I always cited him as a hugely inspirational leader of world fashion. He will be greatly missed.
Matthew Williamson
It’s very important that when you have a designer like Marc Jacobs, who is a genius, you give him complete freedom.
Bernard Arnault
‘Get Out’ was born out of the genius mind of Jordan Peele, to whom I will be forever grateful for believing in me and allowing me to help him tell a story so dear to him.
Daniel Kaluuya
Oprah Winfrey represents the most ingenious and creative expression of black spiritual genius in the public mainstream that we’ve had in quite a long time, if ever.
Michael Eric Dyson
The only genius that’s worth anything is the genius for hard work.
Kathleen Winsor
The genius idea of industrialism was the concept of the Model T: In exchange for something cheap and well-made, we’d forgo unique, lovely design.
Clive Thompson
I took a test once; they said I was a genius.
Alex Honnold
Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it’s rightly used. He’s a genius.
Lupita Nyong’o
The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.
Eric Ries
Karina Longworth, the genius behind ‘You Must Remember This’, has quite correctly spun off her series about the Sharon Tate murders as a separate podcast called ‘You Must Remember Manson’ to mark the passing of the man who unleashed hell because he couldn’t get a recording contract.
David Hepworth
The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
Denis Diderot
Two actors who have different motivations and skill sets can work together and be magic. Charles Grodin and Robert DeNiro technically couldn’t work more differently, and yet they made ‘Midnight Run,’ which is a genius comedy.
John Carroll Lynch
Take the complications, rules, shoulds, musts, have tos, and so on out of your life. By uncomplicating your life and removing the trivial pursuits that occupy so much of it, you open a channel for the genius within you to emerge.
Wayne Dyer
Kings had their clowns, the people their actors and musicians. Shakespeare was scheduled as a servant. It is thus that successful stupidity has always treated genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
David Chase is a genius.
Frank Vincent
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
The extraordinary genius of John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie 100 years ago was their recognition that the great wealth they had amassed could be put to public good and used to solve the complex problems for which there were no other sources of capital.
Judith Rodin
I was a ‘Glee’ fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
Becca Tobin
My father was into fame and leaving his mark. He was a city planner, sort of a genius in that world, the Robert Moses of Philadelphia. He was on the cover of ‘Time’ once, and I remember going to his office and seeing, like, two hundred copies, which he would hand out to people.
Kevin Bacon
The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Pablo Picasso
I want to do 'Chicago P.D.' for as long as it's on the

I want to do ‘Chicago P.D.’ for as long as it’s on the air. I love the show; I love the Dick Wolf family. I think he’s created something genius with the crossovers and having everyone on these shows inhabit the same universe as far as ‘Chicago Med’ and ‘Chicago Fire’ and ‘Chicago P.D.’
Jesse Lee Soffer
Man who invented the hamburger was smart; man who invented the cheeseburger was a genius.
Matthew McConaughey
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg