Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility.

Beatrice Webb

the possession of wealth, and especially the inheritance of wealth, seems almost invariably to sterilize genius.

Alain de Botton

The genius of religions is that they structure the inner life.

Charles Churchill

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Jane Austen

Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end.

Benjamin Disraeli

Genius, when young, is divine.

Carl von Clausewitz

A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.

Bryant H. McGill

Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm.

Brian Clough

Anybody who can do anything in Leicester but make a jumper has got to be a genius.

Curt Miller

We were too perimeter-oriented. Toledo played a mixture of defenses and they really had us on our heels. We were just settling for 3s.

Arthur Helps

A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.

Elizabeth Hurley

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous.

Billy Wilder

My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.

John Wilkinson

If we all work together, we'll have a sustaining mixture for all of us to have.

Adam Savage

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Elizabeth Bowen

Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.

Stephen Jay Gould

No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament.

James Fenton

Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or a little on the obvious side, or a mixture of all of these things.