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

• People don't realize what a brilliant politician Lincoln was. Looking back, we want to ascribe a level of providence to his every decision but he was a cunning and calculating politician; from the cultivation of his image as a hayseed from Illinois, to his ability to keep this country together under dire circumstances.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • People
  • Country
  • Together

• Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.

  

  Erik Estrada
  • Long
  • Done
  • Hours

• Vintage was brilliant!

  

  Gavin Turk
  • Brilliant
  • Vintage

• 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

• Fischer Chess play was always razor-sharp, rational and brilliant. One of the best ever

  

  Dave Regis
  • Always
  • Chess
  • Rational

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Mask
  • Vulnerable

• 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

• The key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like you are.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Reputation
  • Key
  • Brilliant

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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