Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Oscar Levant
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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Gertrude Stein
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
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Carl Sagan
For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an all-encompassing distaste for which he could not find the complementary inclination. He felt at times as though he had been born...
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Robert Musil
More Quotes By Josh Billings
The squeeky wheel gets the grease.
Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.
