Quotes About The Word Genius

#1. I do not use the word 'genius' lightly, but if David Bowie is not a genius, then there is no such thing.

Mick Rock

#2. The word genius was whispered into my ear the first things I ever Heard while I was still mewling in my crib, laughs Orson (Welles), so it never occured to me that I wasn't until middle age

Barbara Leaming

#3. Alec encapsulated the word genius in every conceivable sense. Frank knew it. He'd always known it. He'd never learned that true genius couldn't be caged because true genius could never be contained.

Zathyn Priest

#4. Would I use the word 'genius' to describe myself? No. 'Alive?' Perhaps. 'Befuddled?' Certainly.

Sean Gibson

#5. I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.

Ted McGinley

#6. The word "genius" isn't applicable in football. A
Genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Joe Theismann

#7. One word continues to be used when people talk about Bob Crane's radio work: genius.

Carol M. Ford

#8. Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.

Margot Fonteyn

#9. Dyslexia is the affliction of a frozen genius.

Stephen Richards

#10. I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

Eddie Griffin

#11. Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

Fritz Kreisler

#12. The first step in gaining the upper hand is always to seize the moral high ground, and to be able to do this with no more than a single word is nothing short of genius. I

Alan Bradley

#13. He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#14. PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to ... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

Emily Dickinson

#15. In the Immortal word of Socrates...I drank what?

Form the movie Real Genius

Chris Knight

#16. If the written word has contributed anything at all to our developing species and our half developed culture, it is this: Great writing has been a staff to lean on, a mother to consult, a wisdom to pick up stumbling folly, a strength in weakness and a courage to support sick cowardice.

John Steinbeck

#17. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Crap was not a bad word. It was the shortened name of the marketing genius of the best known flush toilet, John Crapper. Really.

Faith Hunter

#19. I'm a creative genius and there's no other way to word it.

Kanye West

#20. There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.

James Russell Lowell

#21. I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Anthony Hopkins

#22. Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Dan Hill

#23. How drugs patchworked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. I wanted Russell to be a genius.

Emma Cline

#24. The genius of the word is that it's more of an expression than a word. Nook

Durga Chew-Bose

#25. The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Virginia Woolf

#26. Steve McQueen is a genius. And I think that word is overused, but I think with Steve it's rightly used. He's a genius.

Lupita Nyong'o

#27. The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all.

Robert T. Kiyosaki