Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

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.

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.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

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

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

Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

. . . 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.