I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emulate. You'd just be ripping them off.
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.
Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.
You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.
Geniuses are not always pleasant people.
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.
Independent thinkers are usually geniuses or idiots and at times it's hard to tell which.
We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.
The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.
Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.
Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.
There are no more geniuses, only critics.
. . . Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
One of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.
