Brilliant Quotes:

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

- Aaron Levie

topic: Three, Asking, Brilliant

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...

- Alan Hollinghurst

source: Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

topic: Technique, Brilliant, Problem, Squandering, Redundancy

Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant.

- Alan Moore

topic: Progress, Nihilism, Brilliant

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

- Alan Rickman

topic: Careers, Might, Brilliant

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

- Alexander Smith

topic: Stars, England, Brilliant

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.

- Alexandra Roach

topic: Brilliant, Volume

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

- Alice Walker

topic: Revolution, Brilliant, Consciousness

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Men, Brilliant, Madmen

Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy!

- Andy Weir

topic: Home, Brilliant, Entropy, Damn You, Thermodynamics

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

- Anibal Cavaco Silva

topic: Trying, Students, Brilliant

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

- Ann Patchett

topic: Done, Might, Brilliant

The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

- Anna Neagle

topic: Actors, Brilliant

Anyone who can say and do anything better than that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain in his head.

- Anuj

topic: Brain, Done, Brilliant

I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Brilliant, Fantasy, Abandoned, Search For Truth

If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Brilliant, Enjoy, Wells, Funny Bumper Sticker

…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy

- Audrey Niffenegger

topic: Way, Sun, Brilliant

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

- Avicenna

topic: Lightning, Brilliant, Disappear

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.

- Barack Obama

topic: Light, Brilliant, Fierce, Phenomenal Woman

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

- Bear Grylls

topic: Rude, Rays, Brilliant

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

- Ben Stein

topic: Thinking, Brilliant, Evolution

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

- Bill Gross

topic: Brilliant, Mutual Fund, Fidelity

I jump 'em from other writers but I arrange 'em my own way.

- Blind Willie McTell

topic: Ems, Way, Brilliant

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

- Brian De Palma

source: Brian De Palma, Laurence F. Knapp (2003). “Interviews”, p.184, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Interesting, France, Brilliant, Interesting Things, Press Conferences

Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

- Bruce Vilanch

topic: Writing, Brilliant

Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Jesus, Comedian, Brilliant, Stand Up Comedian

I was excellent. Everybody loved me. I love myself, and I like bums.

- Cardinal Richelieu

topic: I Love Myself, Brilliant, Excellent

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

topic: Spring, Clothes, Brilliant, Spring Poems, Dirty Clothes

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brilliant

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

topic: School, Brilliant, Film, Wales

I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

- Cecil Rhodes

topic: Ideas, Sticks, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

- Charles Gounod

topic: Beautiful, Musician, Brilliant, Colossus, Rossini

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

- Charles Stross

topic: Emotional, Self, Brilliant

I have been working a lot, and I like it. And you know, it's hard for me not to. I guess I've been working a lot because I get to play with brilliant people.

- Charlize Theron

topic: Play, People, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas, Working A Lot

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Fate, People, Brilliant

When somebody's ego is in service of really brilliant, innovative work, it's hard to, cause I'm such an asshole, it's hard to criticize their failures as a human sometimes.

- Claire Danes

topic: Ego, Causes, Brilliant

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

- Clarence Budington Kelland

topic: Dull, Succeed, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas, Toastmasters

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Memories, Originality, Brilliant, No Memory

William Shakespeare was a brilliant writer and he only wrote the truth. So, if I dont believe it, I have to work really hard to see what that truth is so that I do; thats the only way I can make it believable for the audience.

- Condola Rashad

topic: Believe, Way, Brilliant

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

- Dave Kellett

topic: Together, Three, Brilliant

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

- David Gelernter

topic: Book, Brilliant, Units

He is brilliant - to the top of his boots.

- David Lloyd George

topic: Sarcastic, Boots, Brilliant

I thought Obama was brilliant. He's so informed. He's circumspect. He's articulate. He's thoughtful. Well, I think in my lifetime, there's never been anything like it.

- David Shuster

topic: Thoughtful, Thinking, Brilliant

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it.The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

- David Wright

source: Source: www.esquire.com

topic: Baseball, Games, Brilliant

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

- Derek Sivers

topic: Ideas, Execution, Brilliant

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

- Desmond Llewelyn

topic: Simplicity, Gadgets, Brilliant

Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

- Don Dodge

topic: Visionaries, Succeed, Brilliant

I get crushes on directors because they are so brilliant.

- Dorothy Malone

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Crush, Directors, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.

- Emily Mortimer

topic: Fire, Lines, Brilliant

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

- Eric Balfour

topic: Stuff, Chef, Brilliant

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

- Eric Maisel

topic: Beautiful, Brilliant, Persons

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

- Erich Segal

source: Erich Segal (2015). “Doctors: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam

topic: Genius, Brilliant, Madness

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

- Eugene Delacroix

topic: Mirrors, Color, Brilliant

The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

- Faith Hill

topic: Mom, Planning, Brilliant, Planning Ahead

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

- Francoise Giroud

topic: Brilliant, Advisors

Everyone we regard as brilliant has endured an enormous amount of failure.

- Frans Johansson

topic: Brilliant, Enormous

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

- Garrison Wynn

topic: Stupid, Average, Brilliant

A brilliant strategy is, certainly, a matter of intelligence, but intelligence without audaciousness is not enough.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Matter, Brilliant, Strategy, Chess Players

You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.

- Gavin de Becker

source: Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

topic: Hazards, Brilliant, Guardian

I had the good fortune of speaking with Orson Wells many decades ago and he said 'Success is primarily luck anyway.' And I have been very lucky. Of course, Orson Wells was enormously talented and brilliant - so who am I to argue with him!

- George Kennedy

topic: Luck, Arguing, Brilliant, Good Fortune, Fortune And Luck

We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

- Gerard Arpey

topic: Needs, Care, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent.

- Giacomo Casanova

topic: Brilliant, Constitution, Excellent

One of my main goals in life is to make those that believed in me look extremely brilliant.

- Greg Gilbert

topic: Goal, Looks, Brilliant

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

- Guillermo del Toro

topic: Ideas, Diaries, Brilliant

Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

- Guy Consolmagno

source: "Pope's astronomer says he would baptise an alien if it asked him" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

topic: Brilliant, Theology, Physicist

I think America has a brilliant future.

- Harold Evans

topic: Thinking, America, Brilliant

Part of George R.R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.

- Harry Lloyd

topic: Feet, Brilliant, Storytelling

I believe food is the most brilliant invention ever.

- Helena Christensen

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Believe, Brilliant, I Believe

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

topic: Giving, Support, Brilliant

How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.

- Henry Winkler

source: "The One Thing Henry Winkler Wished He Knew as a Caregiver". Interview with Katie Neal, spryliving.com. June 13, 2013.

topic: Brilliant

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

- Henry Winkler

source: "Q&A: Henry Winkler, children's book author". Interview with Jenniffer Weigel, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 23, 2014.

topic: Brilliant

Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.

- Hermann Weyl

source: Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.192, Courier Corporation

topic: Quality, Brilliant, Cold, Starlight

I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Strong, Thinking, Brilliant

There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.

- Ian McDiarmid

source: Interview With Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. October 12, 2005.

topic: Numbers, People, Brilliant, Swordsman

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

- Immanuel Kant

topic: Example, May, Brilliant, Math And Science

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

- Ioan Gruffudd

topic: Actors, Just Being, Brilliant, Improvising

I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.

- Ion Tiriac

topic: Tennis, Stories, Brilliant

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant.

- Jacki Weaver

topic: Brother, Brilliant, Coen Brothers

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

- James Gould Cozzens

source: James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

topic: People, Dumb, Brilliant

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

- James Gunn

topic: Ideas, Dozen, Brilliant

I've done quite a lot of dying on shows and in movies. To have a good death scene though - come on, it's brilliant. I love a good death scene!

- Jared Harris

topic: Dying, Done, Brilliant

The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

topic: Gay, Tone, Brilliant, Good Conversation, Pedantry

It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to.

- Jean-Luc Godard

topic: Inspirational, Creativity, Brilliant

I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.

- Jenny Saville

topic: Play, Anxiety, Brilliant

I'm not a singer, and I'm not a brilliant dancer.

- Jeremy Bulloch

topic: Dancer, Singers, Brilliant

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a stage and say he's going to do Hamlet for you, and why don't you enjoy it? That's a hell of an analogy, but it's about the same thing.

- Jerry Stiller

topic: Actors, Analogies, Brilliant

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

- Joel Siegel

topic: Brilliant, Excellent, Critics

John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

- John Badham

topic: Sound, Brilliant, Motion Pictures

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant.

- John Henrik Clarke

topic: People, Degrees, Brilliant

We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

- John Poindexter

topic: Ideas, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

- Jonny Greenwood

source: "Sound and fury" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2000.

topic: Who We Are, Brilliant, Radiohead

Brilliant, hard-earned and honest. The erasures and reappearances of figure and ground-that hard drama-have rarely been so movingly undertaken. A heartbreakingly beautiful work.

- Jorie Graham

topic: Beautiful, Drama, Brilliant

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

- Jude Law

topic: Soapbox, Brilliant, Utopia

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy.

- Julie Benz

topic: Thinking, Done, Brilliant

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

- Julie London

topic: Acting, Scripts, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

- June Jordan

topic: Political, Brilliant, Telling The Truth

Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.

- Juno Temple

source: "Juno Temple Talks HORNS, SIN CITY 2 and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES at Sundance" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 28, 2013.

topic: People, Doe, Brilliant

I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.

- Kate Moss

topic: Couple, Brilliant, Cleavage

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

- Katee Sackhoff

topic: People, Brilliant, Mets

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

- Kathy Reichs

source: Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.125, Penguin

topic: Ideas, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas, Felony

The scenes in the show were filmed with a crew of really excellent stunt jumpers, but we had the feel of the parachutes, so we could be more realistic in the roles.

- Ken Curtis

topic: Roles, Brilliant, Realistic, Parachutes, Jumpers

Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

- Ken Follett

topic: Brilliant

If you've done a brilliant version it becomes something else.

- Kenneth Branagh

topic: Done, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

- Kenneth Kaunda

source: "Ex-freedom fighter Kenneth Kaunda on Africa's new battles", www.cnn.com. August 4, 2010.

topic: Children, Boys, Brilliant

Freddie Bryant is a brilliant young guitarist and composer.

- Kenny Burrell

topic: Brilliant, Young, Composer

God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.

- Lauren Bacall

topic: Memorable, Would Be, Brilliant

Shocking is easy. Shockingly brilliant, a bit more challenging.

- Lee Clow

topic: Challenges, Brilliant, Easy

Sometimes he does the brilliant things really well.

- Lee Sharpe

topic: Football, Doe, Brilliant

I absolutely love this. Top notch art and scripting encapsulating a brilliant idea.

- Leinil Francis Yu

topic: Art, Ideas, Brilliant, Notches, Top Notch

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

- Lillian Hellman

topic: Fields, Brilliant, Theater

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.

- Lisa Kirk

topic: Women, Gossip, Brilliant

Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.

- Loic Le Meur

topic: Brilliant, Andrew, Entertaining

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

- Louis Kronenberger

topic: Running, Perfect, Brilliant

Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy.

- Louis Pasteur

topic: Doors, Brilliant

I always remember loving Even Stevens - that show was so brilliant and funny and smart.

- Luke Benward

topic: Smart, Brilliant, Remember

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good one, then their futures are ensured.

- Lynn Abbey

topic: Believe, Ideas, Brilliant

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

- Lytton Strachey

topic: War, Brilliant, Outbreaks

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Morning, Brilliant, Glory

Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant.

- Malcolm Gladwell

topic: Four, Brilliant, Consciousness

Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

- Marcus Buckingham

topic: Unique, Differences, Brilliant, Great Managers

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant, and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

topic: Friendship, Adversity, Brilliant

Stafford Cripps has a brilliant mind, until he makes it up.

- Margot Asquith

topic: Mind, Brilliant, Brilliant Minds

The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

- Marilyn Hacker

topic: Suicide, Eccentric, Brilliant

i'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

- Marilyn Hacker

topic: Bed, Swamps, Brilliant

Sebastian Vettel's brilliant talent will ultimately come forth and he'll continue to show what he's capable of. I will never ever degrade Vettel's ability. Sooner or later, he'll prove anyone so wrong

- Mario Andretti

topic: Brilliant, Talent, Ability, Vettel

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

- Marshall B. Rosenberg

topic: Stupid, Communication, Brilliant

There are so many brilliant women on television right now.

- Martha Plimpton

topic: Television, Brilliant

Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.

- Martha Stewart

topic: Bulldogs, Brilliant

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Philosophy, Way, Brilliant

Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not technically brilliant, but it's the spirit that counts.

- Martin Parr

topic: Challenges, Brilliant, Spirit

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

- Martin Scorsese

topic: Excellence, Brilliant, Patient

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough.

- Martina Cole

topic: Frost, Brilliant, Enough

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

- Marva Collins

source: Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

topic: Children, Educational, Brilliant, Children Education, Great Educational

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

- Mary MacLane

topic: Beautiful, Brilliant, Fame, Benign

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

- Max Beerbohm

topic: Giving, Needs, Brilliant

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

- Max McKeown

topic: Mean, Brilliant, Strategy

Writing can be a lifeline, especially when your existence has been denied, especially when you have been left on the margins, especially when your life and process of growth have been subjected to attempts at strangulation.

- Micere Githae Mugo

topic: Writing, Growth, Brilliant, Lifelines

I love watching Jeff Bridges act. He's brilliant.

- Michael Sheen

topic: Bridges, Brilliant

I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.

- Mick Ralphs

topic: Brilliant, Range Rover, Range

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

- Mika

topic: Causes, Brilliant, Gaga

I never enjoyed my work more than when I worked with William Powell. He was a brilliant actor, a delightful companion, a great friend and above all, a true gentleman.

- Myrna Loy

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Gentleman, Actors, Brilliant, True Gentleman

Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Children, Brilliant, Exciting, Disabled Children

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Depression, Brilliant, Being Depressed

People keep referring to me as a standup, and that just doesn't sit well with me because a lot of my friends are standups and they're brilliant at writing jokes, and I'm not.

- Nick Offerman

topic: Writing, People, Brilliant, Referring

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

- Nigel Dennis

topic: Brilliant, Easy, Brilliant Ideas

Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.

- Noah Baumbach

source: "Noah Baumbach Talks 'Kicking And Screaming' On The Eve Of BAMcinemaFest 17th Anniversary Screening". Interview with Rodrigo Perez, www.indiewire.com. June 29, 2012.

topic: Brilliant, Made

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.

- Orson Scott Card

topic: Humanity, Doe, Brilliant, Ender, Enders Game

My breasts have had a brilliant career. I've just tagged along for the ride.

- Pamela Anderson

topic: Careers, Brilliant, Breasts

You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring

- Paul Hawken

source: Paul Hawken's Commencement Address at University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 2, 2014.

topic: Earth, Brilliant, Hiring

Frost isn't exactly despised but not enough people have worked out what a brilliant poet he was

- Paul Muldoon

topic: People, Frost, Brilliant

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

- Pearl Cleage

source: "The Beautiful Discomfort of John Ridley’s American Crime" by Wade Davis II, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 10, 2015.

topic: Enlightenment, Brilliant, Discomfort

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

- Peggy Noonan

topic: People, Interesting, Brilliant

It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term.

- Peter Mandelson

topic: Ideas, Government, Brilliant

A bad decision well implemented is better than a brilliant decision not well implemented.

- Peter Schutz

topic: Decision, Brilliant, Wells

I don't deliberately select my friends because of their background. If I enjoy someone's company, then that's all that counts. I have many different friends who aren't from the same background as me and we get on really wellit's brilliant.

- Prince William

topic: Different, Brilliant, Select

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

- Quintilian

topic: Faults, Brilliant, Excellent, Brilliant Ideas, Admission

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

- R. Kent Hughes

topic: Brilliant, Wells

The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

- Ralph Fiennes

topic: Potters, Brilliant, Fantastic

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

- Raymond E. Feist

topic: Writing, Ideas, Brilliant, Untalented

I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.

- Rebel Wilson

topic: Thinking, Actors, Brilliant

Do not tolerate brilliant jerks. The cost to teamwork is too high.

- Reed Hastings

topic: Teamwork, Cost, Brilliant

It still hasn't sunk in that I'm going to be in Coronation Street. Everything about the role is brilliant and I'm working with some great people.

- Richard Fleeshman

topic: People, Roles, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas, Coronation

Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

- Richard Hammond

source: "Richard Hammond: I'm having a mid-life crisis in reverse". www.mirror.co.uk. December 22, 2011.

topic: Brilliant, Forty

Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

- Richard Widmark

topic: Directors, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.

- Ridley Scott

topic: Moving, Majority, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

- Ritchie Blackmore

topic: Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

- Ritchie Blackmore

topic: Attitude, Player, Brilliant

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

- Ritchie Blackmore

topic: Attitude, Way, Brilliant

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

- Rob Marshall

topic: White, Elephants, Brilliant

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

- Robbie Williams

topic: People, Want, Brilliant, Stoke

There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

- Robert Bridges

source: Robert Bridges (1912). “Poetical Works Of Robert Brides Excluding The Eight Dramas”

topic: Brilliant, Hills, Silver, Thames, Shady

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheims Assassins at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

- Robert Lopez

topic: Thinking, Assassins, Brilliant, Sondheim

[...] a number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.

- Robert Musil

topic: Numbers, Add, Brilliant

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

- Roy Wood

topic: Play, Rehearsal, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.

- Sarah Silverman

topic: Artist, Smell, Brilliant, Brisket, Back In Time

I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.

- Sarah Vowell

topic: Stupid, Catholic, Brilliant, Killjoy, Shorthand

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

- Sarah Zettel

topic: Brilliant, Butlers

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

- Scott McCloud

source: "Mr. Comics Talks Comics". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. July 21, 2006.

topic: Community, Brilliant, Scene, Newcomers

The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

- Seth Godin

topic: Keys, Acting, Brilliant

Do you believe in what you do? Every day? It turns out that belief happens to be a brilliant strategy.

- Seth Godin

topic: Believe, Brilliant, Belief

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

- Shana Abe

topic: Brilliant, Spirit, Snowflake

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

- Shane Koyczan

source: Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

topic: Average, Firsts, Brilliant

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

- Shawn Fanning

source: "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, www.zdnet.com. March 3, 2000.

topic: Thinking, Media, Brilliant

Cynicism is a choice. Optimism is a better choice.

- Shonda Rhimes

source: Twitter post from Jul 30, 2014

topic: Optimism, Choices, Brilliant

You weren't born to fit in. You were born to be brilliant.

- Simon T. Bailey

source: Simon T. Bailey (2009). “Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World”, p.5, Harper Collins

topic: Brilliant, Fit, Born

Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant.

- Simon T. Bailey

source: Simon T. Bailey (2009). “Release Your Brilliance: The 4 Steps to Transforming Your Life and Revealing Your Genius to the World”, p.7, Harper Collins

topic: Brilliant, Diamond

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films'.

- Sophia Myles

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Thinking, Brilliant

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

- Sophie Thompson

source: "Sophie Thompson: 'I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I'd find the funny bits'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

topic: Actors, Brilliant, Pinup, Allison

As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.

- Stanislaw Ulam

source: "Adventures of a Mathematician". Book by Stanislaw Ulam, 3rd edition. Chapter 4: "Princeton Days", p. 76, 1991.

topic: Self Confidence, Brilliant, Complicated, Virtuosity, Von Neumann

I love 'Shattered Glass.' It's one of my favorite movies. I think it's just brilliant.

- Steve Zahn

source: "Steve Zahn" by Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. July 03, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Glasses, Brilliant, Shattered Glass

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

- Steven Pinker

topic: May, Brilliant, Reputation, Dilbert

I was one of the most brilliant liars as a child

- Tea Leoni

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Children, Liars, Brilliant

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

- Theodore Dreiser

source: Theodore Dreiser, Roark Mulligan (2010). “The Financier: The Critical Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press

topic: Needs, Brilliant, Underestimate

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

- Therese of Lisieux

topic: Catholic, Deeds, Brilliant, Catholic Saint

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

- Thom Yorke

topic: Reading, Book, Brilliant

Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.

- Thomas J. Sargent

topic: Brilliant, Inspired, Wonderful, Keynes

If you grow up in Britain, you just do Shakespeare. If you go and work in a theater once or twice or three times in your life, you're going to end up doing a Shakespeare, because he's obviously such a brilliant, brilliant writer.

- Timothy Dalton

topic: Growing Up, Three, Brilliant

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

- Tobias Wolff

source: Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.8, Vintage

topic: Support, Brilliant, Fragments, Completeness

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

- Toni Collette

topic: Desert, Brilliant

I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.

- Twiggy

topic: Thinking, Way, Brilliant

More often than not ... 'Selma' focuses on the one thing we don't expect in a movie about Martin Luther King Jr. - his doubts - and Oyelowo comes through with a deeply felt and quite brilliant performance,

- Ty Burr

topic: Kings, Doubt, Brilliant