Brilliant Quotes

• First, I started with music singing, writing songs, playing music. Later, I got into acting. I'm not a brilliant musician or a brilliant actor. But, to me, they're still great vehicles for expression.

  

  Murray Head
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Singing

• Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion.

  

  George Washington
  • Giving
  • Speak
  • Earnest

• Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all.

  

  David Stockman
  • Ideas
  • Brilliant
  • Scholar

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

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Legacy
  • Iraq
  • George W. Bush

• You're brilliant? Say something in algebra.

  

  Phil Silvers
  • Say
  • Brilliant
  • Algebra

• Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission

  

  Warsan Shire
  • Trying
  • Struggle
  • Secret

• Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

  

  George Washington
  • Talent
  • Virtue
  • Integrity

• 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.

  

  Sarah Shahi
  • Thinking
  • Husband
  • Genius

• We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be?

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Brilliant
  • Ourselves
  • Fabulous

• I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to me, they are very specific, fascinating, sometimes brilliant, judgmental killjoys who rarely agreed on anything except that Catholics are going to Hell.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Sometimes
  • Stupid
  • Catholic

• I was being flirted with for 'Modern Family,' which my wife still hasn't let me live down, but it's one of those things where that show is so brilliant because the casting couldn't be any more perfect. It wouldn't have been right for me, and I wouldn't have been right for it.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Family
  • Perfect
  • Wife

• When I say hip-hoppers, I mean black, white, Asian, Latino, Chicano, everybody. Everybody. Hip-hop has united all races. Hip-hop has formed a platform for all people, religions, and occupations to meet on something. We all have a platform to meet on now, due to hip-hop. That, to me, is beyond music. That is just a brilliant, brilliant thing.

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
  • People
  • Black
  • Mean

• 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.

  

  Sandra Oh
  • Boys
  • Lucky
  • Brilliant

• All jokes aside, it's a very difficult job playing the straight man. Jason is potentially the most brilliant straight man that ever was because he's also really funny while doing it, which is even harder. I've always seen myself playing characters who are flawed. We use comedy in our lives to obscure the drama.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Men
  • Character
  • Comedy

• As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

  

  Richard McCabe
  • Actors
  • Brilliant

• Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Path
  • Treacherous

• In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Breakfast
  • Dull

• I was 12 and I remember every­thing. I mean, I had done two films before that. The first was actually with Amy Heckerling. It was so brilliant to work with her on my first film. Atonement was the third one I'd done, and I remember how it felt to arrive on set every day. I remember how it felt to get my wig off at the end of the day. I remember how hot it was.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Remember
  • Mean
  • Film

• I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Way
  • Attitude
  • Hendrix

• The tone of good conversation is brilliant and natural; it is neither tedious nor frivolous; it is instructive without pedantry, gay without tumultuousness, polished without affectation, gallant without insipidity, waggish without equivocation.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Gay
  • Natural

• It's incredibly easy as a director to be egotistical. Of course, it is because you have 200 people on set every day listening to your every word and whatever you say goes, and that can be slightly corrupting. And actually, to be a good director, you have to take ego out of it, because hopefully what you've done is surrounded yourself with brilliant people. Let them be brilliant and you just shepherd that and marshal that and hopefully guide it however you can, but definitely not to the extent that you're overbearing.

  

  Dan Mazer
  • Listening
  • Easy
  • Ego

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

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Brilliant
  • Clapton

• Well actually I'm not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of the salad bar onto a microphone and the band realized that they had just discovered something brilliant. Me.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Men
  • Band
  • Eating

• I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that race in casting is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act together.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Together
  • Strange
  • Casting

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