Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don't know that I've ever heard any geniuses.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.
You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.
