"Genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly."

-- Amelia Barr

#Genius Quotes #Wells Quotes

“The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist's sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.”
“There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.”
“A well-read writer, with good taste, is one who has the command of the wit of other men; he searches where knowledge is to be found; and though he may not himself excel in invention, his ingenuity may compose one of those agreeable books, the deliciÃ¦ of literature, that will out-last the fading meteors of his day.”
“Some said he shouldn't save Detroit. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save more than a million American jobs in an important, iconic industry.”
“If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.”
“Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.”
“To paint is to know how to put nothing on canvas, and have it look like something when you stand back.”
“Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.”

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