The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.

This homage has been rendered not to me - for the Polish soil is fertile and does not lack better writers than me - but to the Polish achievement, the Polish genius.

Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Talent works, genius creates.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.

Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

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.