Campfire Genius

My favorite animal is steak. - Fran Lebowitz

Tacos are the food of genius. - Heather Brewer

True genius lies in simplicity. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Necessity is often the spur to genius. - Honoré de Balzac

Then you add two forkfuls of cooking oil. - The French Chef

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao-Tzu

Eternity is two people and a roast turkey. - James Dent

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. - Janet Flanner

I have nothing to declare except my genius. - Oscar Wilde

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli

A genius from nine to five - a fool at the weekends. - Unknown

Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe. - Benjamin Disraeli

A genius can do readily what nobody else can do at all. - Herbert Spencer

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. - Joey L Adams

Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another. - Gosta Mittag-Leffler

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. - Laurie Anderson

A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz. - Humphrey Bogart

There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry. - D.G. Mitchell

I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food. - Will Ferrell

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. - Paul Cezanne

Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - L. Ron Hubbard

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. - Oscar Wilde

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang

Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. - William James

Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time. - Viktor Frankl

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. - George Eliot

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Arthur Conan Doyle

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time. - Chinese Proverb

The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, with absolutely no talent. - Hugh Leonard

I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don't require as much cooking. - Carrie Snow

The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. - Johann Wolfgang Goethe

If you find yourself interesting, you're a bore.
But if you find me interesting, you're a genius. - David Foster

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins. - Carol Burnett

The twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. - Igor Stravinsky

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. - Edgar Allan Poe

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it was stupid. - Albert Einstein