Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.

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.

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.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Married life is absolutely brilliant.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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