#genius

She was a genius, my mother. ↗

— Sally Kirkland

#mother #she

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we might be missing something. ↗

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

#complicated #genius #make #might #missing

Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#every #genius #hiroshima #leads #negative

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#achieving #businessmen #competition #efficient #free

Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#ever #genius #hardest #i #mike

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. ↗

— William James

#genius #little #means #more #perceiving

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#cheese #culture #food #french #genius

Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. ↗

— Washington Irving

#among #ascends #away #clouds #disappear

The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it. ↗

— Nigel Kneale

#beaten #because #comes #company #direction

The only good political movement I've seen lately was Occupy Wall Street. They had no leaders, which was genius. But unfortunately it always ends up with some hippy playing a flute. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#ends #flute #genius #good #had