Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

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.

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

I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

I was obsessed with Claire Danes because she was Juliet. There is something about her still to this day - she is a brilliant actress. And she did make out with both of my boyfriends.

I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

I work very closely with Steve Bannon. Frankly, people should look at the full resume. He`s got a Harvard Business degree, a naval officer. He has success in entertainment. I don`t know if you`re aware of that. And he certainly was a Goldman Sachs manager and partner. Brilliant tactician.

I worked with great, brilliant directors. I've been so lucky. It's terrible to compare anyone, because you can't. But I can just tell you that this experience was just a truly magnificent experience for everyone involved.

I would not be able to change a sparking plug and I would not be able to fly a spaceship or build a rocket or whatever. But what I am good at doing is finding brilliant people and surrounding myself with brilliant people.

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

J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan and Lisa Joy, who are brilliant people, so I knew it [Westworld] was going to be amazing.

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

Kids audience is a brilliant audience. If you've got an audience of adults standing up and clapping, or you've got an audience of kids standing up and clapping, I know which one I'd choose.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

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

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

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

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

Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.

Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves.

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

Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that's usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: "That was brilliant!

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

Making one brilliant decision and a whole bunch of mediocre ones isn't as good as making a whole bunch of generally smart decisions throughout the whole process.

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Meryl Streep is so brilliant is because she is so human, and aware as a performer.

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

Married life is absolutely brilliant.

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

More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.

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.

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.

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

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

Not even a great leader can get very far without great people to lead.

Music is decisions, and I decide for me what are brilliant decisions.

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

Nothing could be smarter, more splendid, more brilliant, better drawn up than two armies. Trumpets, fifes, hautboys, drums, cannons, formed a harmony such as never been heard in hell.

Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.

My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

[My breasts] had a pretty good career. I’ve basically been tagging along for the ride.

My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

My wife would say I'm not romantic at all, but I would say that I'm the ultimate romancer because I write about... life being brilliant.

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

Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me?

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

Of course smartphones are brilliant inventions, but the nefarious thing about Twitter and other social media is that it starts to fill all the gaps in your day. I quickly become an addict.