Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible outbreak of the Wars of Religion.

The story revolved around this universal identifiable fear that we must all have, at some point, when you commit yourself to being with another person, to have and to hold until death do us part. It's a huge thing. I just felt like it was a brilliant examination of what would happen, if the person that you trusted implicitly and thought you knew every follicle and pour of, inside and out, started to not be that person anymore, inside. Physically, they're still there, but they're not there mentally.

The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering.

The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women

The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

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.

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.

We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers .

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

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

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

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 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.

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

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

You are Brilliant and the Earth is Hiring.