Brilliant Quotes

• In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Humanity
  • Brilliant
  • Midnight

• I have meditated in the last two or three years. To discover what it means to sit and let sounds and movement wash over you has been brilliant. In some ways, that helped me understand where my grandma had gone. She had gone to a different world that we aren't quite connected to.

  

  Hannah Peel
  • Movement
  • Brilliant
  • Sounds

• Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium.

  

  George Antheil
  • Different
  • Style
  • Mediums

• What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.

  

  Erich Segal
  • Beautiful
  • Brilliant
  • Twenties

• You are beautiful and brilliant and bold and so very passionate about life and love and those things that you believe in. And you taught me that everything I believed, everything I thought I wanted, everything I had spent my life espousing--all of it...it is wrong. I want your version of life...vivid and emotional and messy and wonderful and filled with happiness. But I cannot have it without you.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Believe
  • Emotional
  • Wonderful

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

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Brilliant
  • Compare
  • Complacent

• Arnold Rampersad's stunningly revealing biography has, at long last, unveiled-in magisterial prose-the very complex and vulnerable man behind Ralph Ellison's own masks and myths. One of the nation's most brilliant writers emerges as all the more fascinating precisely because he was so very human. Painstakingly researched and compellingly written, Ralph Ellison is a masterwork of the genre of literary biography.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Behinds
  • Vulnerable
  • Mask

• Vintage was brilliant!

  

  Gavin Turk
  • Brilliant
  • Vintage

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

  

  Russell Baker
  • Literature
  • Century
  • Comic

• I'll be darned!" said Douglas. "I never thought of that. That's brilliant! It's true. Old people never were children!" "And it's kind of sad," said Tom, sitting still."There's nothing we can do to help them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • Children
  • Kind

• The setting sun burned the sky pink and orange in the same bright hues as surfers' bathing suits. It was beautiful deception, Bosch thought, as he drove north on the Hollywood Freeway to home. Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.

  

  Michael Connelly
  • Stories
  • Forget
  • Sunset

• Tina Fey is my hero. Some of the most brilliant people don't come off as brilliant.

  

  Sunil Yapa
  • People
  • Hero
  • Brilliant

• It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Difficult

• I get the real moronic progressive economic plan now. The more we spend the richer we are. How brilliant... Go figure these idiots.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Brilliant
  • Progressive
  • Idiots

• Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Stupid
  • Average
  • Frustrating

• I love a lot of comedy actors and actresses like Kristen Wiig and Tina Fey and all those women who are really brilliant and funny.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Comedy
  • Actors
  • Brilliant

• Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance.

  

  Debra Dean
  • Artist
  • Enough
  • Challenges

• Deryn felt brilliant, rising through the air at the center off everyone's attention, like an acrobat aloft on a swing. She wanted to make a speech: Hey, all you sods, I can fly and you can't! A natural airman, in case you haven't noticed. And in conclusion, I'd like to add that I'm a girl and you can all get stuffed!

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Girl
  • Attention
  • Natural

• A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

  

  Sofia Coppola
  • Giving
  • Dad
  • Film

• In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

  

  Catherine Zeta-Jones
  • School
  • Film
  • Brilliant

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