Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

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.

The true test of a brilliant theory [is] what first is thought to be wrong is later shown to be obvious.

The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

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

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

Think of brilliant trickster Vik Muniz as the offspring of Man Ray and Jacques Henri Lartigue, combining the former's relentless experimentation, the latter's effortless wit, and their mutual inventiveness in work that defies category.

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.

Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Tony Blair is a brilliant politician. Unfortunately, his legacy is entwined with George W. Bush because of Iraq.

We conquer, not in any brilliant fashion-we conquer by continuing.

Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing.

Vintage was brilliant!

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's 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 .

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

We have to agree beforehand to divide the funniest lines between us. But Tina [Fey] is so brilliant that I just love every moment working with her and also just hanging out together as friends.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

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

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

What are the most brilliant of our chymical discoveries compared with the invention of fire and the metals?

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.

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

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

Whenever you see me somewhere succeeding in one area of my life, that almost certainly means I am failing in another area of my life.

When people started reading me and talking to me about the work, they didn't say how funny, or how satiric, or how brilliant, or how this or how that, they said, how'd you get away with it? How'd you get that into print?

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.

When people call you brilliant it's always good, especially when the person heads up Russia.

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.

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the idea themselves.

When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.

Whether it's Dorothy Parker or Oscar Wilde, they're brilliant with genius bon mots. Of course, I find them extraordinary.

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Why are we willing to accept a new mathematical formula we don't understand as the product of a brilliant mind, while rejecting a new art form we don't understand as the product of a deranged mind?

Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?

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.

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

Without a plan, even the most brilliant business can get lost. You need to have goals, create milestones and have a strategy in place to set yourself up for success.

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.

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

Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

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.

You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you’re less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

You don't have to be very brilliant. You don't have to have such a wonderful education. You can be an outstanding success if you will only take what little you have, whether it's little or much, and start using it, putting it into operation, doing something about it, and doing something with it. And, of course, that calls for initiative.