I think all geniuses - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the real world, because so much is going on on the inside. They may be geniuses but they often need someone to walk around holding a string. They're sort of balloons, bobbing around.
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Related I think all - or the ones thet I've run into - tend to have a faintly tenuous relationship with the ... NEIL GAIMAN With all the stuff that they do up front, it's kind of unconventional how they walk around, so I thi... DJ SHOCKLEY Artists and geniuses tend to be the loneliest of us all MARCUS GONZALES Geniuses come in many shapes and colors, and they often run in packs. If you can find one, it may le... AARON KOBLIN The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped aro... C. JOYBELL C. Geniuses are born, but they still have to be taught. RICHARD SCHNEEMAN The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become gen... JAMES MORCAN Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone. ANTHONY T. HINCKS I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live t... DAVID DUCHOVNY PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I make things up and write them down. NEIL GAIMAN When I see someone interesting on the subway - the lady with her new Bible or the delivery guy holdi... DAVID EBERSHOFF By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because ge... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN They tend to be civil servants, often diplomats drawn from the Foreign Office, who may be very pleas... ANTHONY HOLDEN I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control. CRISS JAMI Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL We allow no geniuses around our Studio. WALT DISNEY I have been going around to all the fraternities informing them they need someone to defend themselv... JORDAN YOUNG Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me... NEIL GAIMAN I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter insi... LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first ... RICHARD BRANSON One of the highlights of the first Good Omens tour was Neil and I walking through New York singing S... TERRY PRATCHETT ...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this st... NELSON ALGREN The kids have welcomed them. They seem to fit in real well. With the conditions going on around them... LANCE REED Most geniuses are geniuses because of the way they manage their natural talents. He was one because ... ALBERT SáNCHEZ PIñOL We're going to discover as time goes on that there is some adversity ... They are not in love with e... BRENT SPINER One day we found them. They must of been holding a gook convention or something, cause it seem like ... WINSTON GROOM Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to... W. H. AUDEN Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your p... MAJEL BARRETT The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to f... RICHARD BRANSON If there are nine guys auditioning and they're all gorgeous, I have an advantage, because gorgeo... TOM HANKS Life's irony;Most people love to be geniuses,but they hate tribulations. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I feel very fortunate to have been associated with people such as Rodgers and Hammerstein. I think t... SHIRLEY JONES What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left. OSCAR LEVANT What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left. OSCAR LEVANT What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left OSCAR LEVANT Someone who is truly "enlightened" or "awake" doesn't walk around saying so, they just are. FATHOM They thought someone was going around injecting people with some sort of lethal medication. FRANK MINYARD It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn ... NEIL GAIMAN Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "... NEIL GAIMAN You can't hang around geniuses forever because they end up taking everything you've got. Tha... BOB COLACELLO All my life, I have loved balloons - all balloons - the heavy English sort, immense and round, that ... ELIZABETH BIBESCO Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true. DEJAN STOJANOVIC But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu... CARL SAGAN But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geni... CARL SAGAN But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniu... DR. CARL SAGAN What I want to see is more mixed casts. We need it. People need to be brave - in the real world, eve... CYNTHIA ERIVO The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and ... DENNIS RODMAN I'm not going to walk around the stadium looking for him, but if I run into him, whatever, ... Littl... CHANNING CROWDER They kind of sucked me up again on that downhill and into the second hill. I tried to make a pass on... ANDY NEWELL All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so. JOHN UPDIKE [quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually... JOSEPH J. ELLIS Easter is one of my favorite holidays with the kids. They get to run loose, and we always have our f... CAMILA ALVES Remember what you always told me.” “Hold on tight and fight as hard as you can. A.A. FREDA I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They... PAULA POUNDSTONE Stay away from ‘it-can’t-be-done-people’ because they are often mistaken! All you need is to h... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The deaf people there with balloons, holding them up and feeling the vibrations of the balloons to t... JACK BOULWARE Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. ... MIRANDA JULY How do you ever hold on to anybody? ELIZABETH WEIN In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA I guess I have sort of an atypical relationship with my mom for someone my age, because I think I st... MANDY MOORE When people say that the Internet is going to make us all geniuses, that was said about the telegrap... JAMES GLEICK Spiritual people don't float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and ... JOYCE MEYER We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. KNUTE ROCKNE We need someone with big bucks to go in there to make Michael's into substantive real estate, and I'... KEN WRIGHT And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give. NEIL GAIMAN Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad ... ADAM MANSBACH If I know they are not all inside, I'll wait. I know all of the kids who walk across my street so if... AMILIA LUTZ What basically happens is that when a company becomes great, and I'm being a bit rude here, peop... JORGEN VIG KNUDSTORP I just think they feel so comfortable and so unaccountable that they don't have to listen. I think t... DUANE CHRISTENSEN There are potentially six billion geniuses in the world. They just don't know it yet. PETER STROPLE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their differen... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If parents don't vaccinate their child, then you have 3 per thousand risk of death if they get measl... DR BALAJI SADASIVAN I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an... NEIL GAIMAN They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. D. H. LAWRENCE i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I always used to watch 'The Daily Show,' and there were all these comedic geniuses there. I ... AASIF MANDVI The main aim of education should be to send children out into the world with a reasonably sized anth... SIR JOHN MORTIMER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos. CRISS JAMI It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me ... LUCY LIU It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bea... LELAND RYKEN Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA In refugee camps around the world, I met people who were gone. They were still walking around but ha... DEBORAH ELLIS After years of indoctrination into THE SYSTEM a person may think they are making a choice based on f... LEVON PETER POE So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're bus... MORRIE SCHWARTZ Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t... GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t... GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent... JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT A lot of women will be sort of 'competitive like a guy' in the workplace, but then when they... MICHAEL GURIAN The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one... DEYTH BANGER One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future h... MICHAEL CIBENKO We need creative people working with broadcasters, making smart content to inspire people to be geni... WILL.I.AM
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NEIL GAIMAN Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? NEIL GAIMAN I mean, d'you know what eternity is? There's this big mountain, see, a mile high, at the end of the ... NEIL GAIMAN Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and free... NEIL GAIMAN Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay t... NEIL GAIMAN I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality wa... NEIL GAIMAN Proper bread was white, and pre-sliced, and tasted like almost nothing: that was the point. NEIL GAIMAN Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar... NEIL GAIMAN Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and t... NEIL GAIMAN Books were safer than other people anyway. NEIL GAIMAN I don't think I'm mainstream. I think what I am is lots and lots of different cults. And whe... NEIL GAIMAN As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream. NEIL GAIMAN Remember your name. Do not lose hope ---what you seek will be found. NEIL GAIMAN I felt like a Porsche that had learned it wasn't a bicycle anymore but was still taking part in bicy... NEIL GAIMAN I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, ... NEIL GAIMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri... NEIL GAIMAN The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp. NEIL GAIMAN I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it ... NEIL GAIMAN You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplic... NEIL GAIMAN Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel. NEIL GAIMAN So I went out and bought myself a copy of the Writer and Artist Yearbook, bought lots of magazines a... NEIL GAIMAN When you smiled you had my undivided attention. When you laughed you had my urge to laugh with you. ... NEIL GAIMAN Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me ... NEIL GAIMAN As I look back on all that's happened..growing up, growing together, changing you, changing me -- th... NEIL GAIMAN I miss you when something really good happens, because you are the one I want to share it with. I mi... NEIL GAIMAN Love that we can not have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the stronge... NEIL GAIMAN Yes I love him. I love him more than anything else in this world and there is nothing that I would l... NEIL GAIMAN To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, bu... NEIL GAIMAN Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe... NEIL GAIMAN I've noticed that being with you, I smile more often, I anger a little less quickly, the sun shines ... NEIL GAIMAN What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven? NEIL GAIMAN Anyway: I'm not blessed or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do and I do it. Listen: even as ... NEIL GAIMAN The biggest difference between England and America is that England has history, while America has ge... NEIL GAIMAN Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the w... NEIL GAIMAN This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw an... NEIL GAIMAN