Best 501 quotes in «brilliant quotes» category

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

Sociopaths are just like everybody else in that some of them are really brilliant, some of them are really stupid, and most of them are somewhere in between.

So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.

Some books makes me want to go adventuring, others make me feel that they have saved me the trouble.

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.

Sometimes I'd go [in British accent] "Uhh, brilliant! Absolutely brilliant, thank you. Wonderful. Cheers!" I do say "cheers" automatically," from living over there. I say "cheers" to everything.

Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest.

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience's skin. He was very interested in the idea of, 'How can I tell this with just a camera?'

Steve Jobs was not an engineer: He was a brilliant individual with this ability to see around corners, to see things that other people couldn't see. I've learned over the years in the Apple that there are some really talented people who can take the same evidence, the same facts, and look at them and see them in a way that interprets those facts entirely different than most people do.

Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved.

Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

That, to me, is a kind of brilliant environmental ju-jitsu - using the energy of the market and the profit-motive to get businesses to invest in preserving and improving natural systems.

The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

The best thing I ever heard was in the '60s. I heard Jimi Hendrix play 'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' after a rehearsal, and it was brilliant.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

The better you are as a parent, the richer the nest you've built, the more difficult it is for your kids to leave. So they have to invent things to dislike about you. And they're brilliant at it.

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

The advantage of a free market is that it allows millions of decision-makers to respond individually to freely determined prices, allocating resources - labor, capital and human ingenuity - in a manner that can't be mimicked by a central plan, however brilliant the central planner.

Sometimes one of the justices, because they're, you know, they're brilliant lawyers themselves, can put the question in a particular way so that, even if you've prepared to talk about the topic, the question is put in such an excruciatingly difficult way that there's just no good way to handle it.

The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.

The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.

The brilliant Schiller was wrong in his Joan of Arc when he said against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. It is actually by means of the gods that we make our stupidity and gullibility into something ineffable.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

The hardest thing for me is planning ahead. My mom was brilliant at it.

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of 'Homeland'. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: "What did you think?

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

The more brilliant the lightning, the quicker it disappears.

The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

The most brilliant qualities become useless when they are not sustained by force of character.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.