Brilliant Quotes

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.

John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time.

If you've read something brilliant, it's good. It's good to look out the window and see what's going on in the world.

Some actors are brilliant character guys. They submerge.

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well

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.

Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

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

The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.

Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.

We don't have to be brilliant.

Take a look at yourself, the mirror's revealing. If yeen got it, yeen got it the theory is brilliant.

I think Clapton is brilliant. He's the only one who moved me. The only one who made me want to play the guitar.

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

Bill Paley is not only the greatest boss I ever had, but he's the most brilliant, honest and warm human being I've ever met. And I'll say that to his face - even if it costs me my job.

Brilliant minds make errors, brave souls falter, kind hearts leave scars. We are none of us perfect, but we're all perfectly human.

Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

If you talk about yourself, he'll think you're boring. If you talk about others, he'll think you're a gossip. If you talk about him, he'll think you're a brilliant conversationalist.

Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.

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

Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.

I was so brilliant in the past. Now my mind is a blank. It's so glorious to get old.

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

I'm a brilliant filmographer. Is that a word?

I got a lot of body paint on me in a short period of time. I would definitely do it again because Joann Gair is so brilliant, but I would definitely need, like, a good long break for it.

The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.

There's no one in the world close to Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is a phenomenon. He's brilliant. Just because his physique belies that, don't underestimate him.

Mister Teatime had a truly brilliant mind, but it was brilliant like a fractured mirror, all marvellous facets and rainbows but, ultimately, also something that was broken.

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?'

You may tell the greatest lies and wear a brilliant disguise, but you can't escape the eyes of the one who sees right through you.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

I talk about Breaking Bad being the most brilliant show ever, and even minor characters have subtle nuances and are fully drawn.

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I'm obsessed with speed. I'm always asking myself, 'Why can't we do things faster? Why can't it happen more efficiently? Why is this requiring three meetings instead of one?'

The process of re-writing and writing and re-writing means that you may have a brilliant phrase, but over time it distills and distorts and changes.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

Nothing's black or white in our country - you're either brilliant or you're hopeless

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

Most brilliant star upon the crest of Time Is England. England!

Hairpieces are brilliant for adding volume.