Brilliant Quotes

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.

Married life is absolutely brilliant.

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.

I enjoy working with Deborah Ann, I think she's brilliant. It's been a joy.

I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire.' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I really got into 'The Walking Dead.' That was genius. And I have to say, my husband is on 'Shameless,' and I think it's a brilliant show.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that most any trained person could do.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

It’s a brilliant song! C’mon…’Every day is like survival. You’re my lover, not my rival.’ What could be more meaningful than that? (Jesse)

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

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

I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow

I would love to do a really cool romantic comedy, perhaps with Hugh Grant. I think he is brilliant. That's the kind of film I love to go to see. I love 'girls' films.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

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.

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

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

I tried the plan of talking incessantly myself, so as to hide the fact I didn't hear anything they said, the result was nobody paid the slightest attention to my (doubtless brilliant) remarks.

Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.

There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better.

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

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.

I love Ice Cube and Charlie Day. They're brilliant men, great actors and very funny people.

It's always a struggle to make things sound more or less brilliant.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

I don't think you should talk while the movie was going on and say, 'Oh, look at that - look how smart I was' or 'What a brilliant shot that is!' I don't believe in that.

Prince didn't want to sound like Michael Jackson. Neither of them wanted to sound like Luther Vandross. They didn't want to sound like David Bowie. They were all different, but brilliant.

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

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past.

If something brilliant comes along but I really feel like it's too old for me - that I'm not gonna have the experience it takes - I'm not gonna do it. Even if it's "a big mistake for my career".

Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

I think "Girls" is pretty brilliant.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.

Come, sir, come, I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.Look, here I have you, thus I let you go, And give you to the gods.

I am not brilliant. I am curious and persistent.