Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

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

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

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.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

Operating in an unlit world, the unconscious mind is a brilliant detective.

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

Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

Patience and perserverance will accomplish more in this world than a brilliant dash. Remember that when something goes wrong.

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.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

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

Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame and fear and pain, and turned them into great works of art. He was a complex, brilliant person who was just wired too tight.

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

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

. . . planning a brilliant menu and preparing it beautifully doesn't guarantee a recipe for success.

Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.

Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.

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

Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.

Scott Asheton was a brilliant drummer, a natural musician.

Senator Dan Coates, one of the most respected members to have in the Senate, he can't get approved. How do you not approve him? He's been a colleague, highly respected, brilliant guy, great guy, everybody knows it. We're waiting for approval.

Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

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

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

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

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

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

Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them are somewhere in between.

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Sometimes one of the justices, because they're, you know, they're brilliant lawyers themselves, can put the question in a particular way so that, even if you've prepared to talk about the topic, the question is put in such an excruciatingly difficult way that there's just no good way to handle it.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.

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

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

Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.

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

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

Steve Jobs was not an engineer: He was a brilliant individual with this ability to see around corners, to see things that other people couldn't see. I've learned over the years in the Apple that there are some really talented people who can take the same evidence, the same facts, and look at them and see them in a way that interprets those facts entirely different than most people do.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources - labor, capital and human ingenuity - in a manner that can't be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.

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