Richelle Mead Quotes

I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.

Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties.

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.

Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.

Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

Sometimes I stagger even myself with my genius.

You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

I'm the world's greatest wrestler, the world's greatest singer, the world's greatest entertainer.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

My genius is in my nostrils.

Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

Pride causes us to use our gifts as though they came from ourselves, not benefits received from God, and to usurp our benefactor's glory.

I'm such a clever Toad.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.