“Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.”
As quoted by Martha Graham, in Dance Observer, Volumes 24-27 (1957), p. 5
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French composer 1883–1965Related quotes
“Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
As quoted in New Musical Express (1991-11-23).
Interviews (1989-1994), Print
“Greatness is the reward for genius…only a few can be great, the rest are plain good.”
Siddharth Katragadda (1972) Indian writer
page 66
Dark Rooms (2002)
“I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details.
~Mayuri Kurotsuchi”
Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist
“There's a sucker born every minute.”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
Commonly attributed to Barnum, there is much testimony of contemporaries that he never actually said this, and in "P. T. Barnum Never Did Say "There's a Sucker Born Every Minute" http://www.historybuff.com/library/refbarnum.html R. J. Brown asserts that it actually originated with a banker named David Hannum, in reference to one of Barnum's hoaxes: a replica of the Cardiff Giant. <br class="br">Misattributed
Zbigniew Brzeziński (1928–2017) Polish-American political scientist
Time, The Answers Issue (July 2015), p. 49.
Hollow Horn Bear (1850–1913) 19th century Lakota chief and policeman
Response to Walter Mason Camp when asked how long the fighting took on Custer Hill, in [Fox, Richard A., Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined, February 16, 2015, University of Oklahoma Press, 9780806129983, 195, https://books.google.com/books?id=5tazBgAAQBAJ, 1 March 2018]
