W. N. P. Barbellion Quotes

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

I don't consider myself a sociologist, I consider myself a filmmaker, among other things. Maybe an asshole but a filmmaker.

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy.

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

I was all personality and no talent.

I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

My name is George Smoot III, and I am smarter than a fifth-grader.

When I look back, I can see why people thought I was aggressive. My first single, 'Do It Like A Dude,' resulted in a lot of misconceptions about me. I'm confident - but I'm not arrogant.

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.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

To be called a genius at 17 or 18 years old can sometimes cause arrested development.

I think it gets overused and tossed around in ways that aren't true. Every impressive achievement is not genius.

Let's be honest: I call myself a titan. I've got issues.

I'm a bordering genius.

I've always known I was a genius. But I never thought I was a star.

I try to be as humble as possible, but I'm just on another level. That's all there is to it.

I always knew I was different than everyone else, and smarter.

I'm as talented as they come. I would have success in any era.

There's a line between being egotistical and being genius or great.

I object to being called a chess genius because I consider myself to be an all around genius who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he's like an idiot savant. Outside of chess he knows nothing.

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

I'm going to live forever. Geniuses don't die.