Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

I-uh-have the utmost respect for Yamamoto-san. If it had not been for him, there would be no naval aviation. However-the most brilliant man can occasionally make a mistake.

I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing, or buying textbooks and references. The Internet is always a brilliant way to find instant facts, but it's not a great way to really understand your subjects in depth without a lot of work.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and religion but no one is allowed to stand on a soapbox and tell others that theirs is right. I thought that was brilliant. Brilliant.

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.

I wanted to say something brilliant. My God, Holmes, how did you know the zombie was hiding in the flower pot? But I couldn't lie.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Married life is absolutely brilliant.

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.