Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. – Henry Ward Beecher Category: Genius
The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon Category: Genius
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Category: Genius
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. – Henry David Thoreau Category: Music
Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins Category: Past
Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head. – From the movie Finding Forrester Category: Writing
