Brilliant Quotes · Page 19

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

— Kevin Spacey

Lets never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

— Suman Rai

There are thousands of civil servants. In large part, they are brilliant. They work really hard.

— Suella Braverman

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

— Richard Burton

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

— John Lloyd Young

We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge…

— Gabrielle Roth

I believe that filmmaking is a brilliant thing to do - be doing - for a living.

— David Slade

Upside of being an attractive woman; if you're remotely intelligent, people will treat you like you're brilliant. Downside: same thing.

— Dov Davidoff

I think. as a child, there's something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you're in their clutches or power. That must be…

— Bertie Carvel

I can play the guitar and the keys and the drums. I'm not brilliant at any of them. I can sing too.…

— Jim Sturgess

It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read…

— Oliver Jackson-Cohen

Bill Paley is not only the greatest boss I ever had, but he's the most brilliant, honest and warm human being I've…

— Jack Benny

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene.…

— John Schlesinger

My husband is the chef of the family; he's a brilliant cook. Actually, it makes you quite lazy when you have somebody…

— Keeley Hawes

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to…

— Henning Mankell

Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to…

— Rafael Yglesias

I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that…

— Ismail Kadaré

What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of…

— Muhammad Yunus

The Democratic party should say, "Thank you very much, but you know what, we're going back to be a big-tent party. Broad…

— Peggy Noonan

You should know what makes one photo brilliant and another. Why one illustration is instructive and another is banal. Why one blurb…

— Jason Calacanis

A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Silicon Valley, "the largest legal creation of wealth in history," was built largely by unprofessional amateurs using math, sand, and the institutions…

— Michael Strong

I love a smart, well-written show, and '30 Rock,' well, you can't get any better than that. Tina Fey poos funny. There's…

— Andy Cohen

On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich,…

— Corey Taylor

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

— Drake

Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

— Katee Sackhoff

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe.

— Thomas Sowell

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

— Max Beerbohm

I'm a massive fan of the 'Bourne' franchise, and I think Damon's brilliant in it, and I love the films. I'm really…

— Max Beesley

Some people get really worried about non-actors, but I think you can get brilliant performances out of people.

— Gareth Edwards

When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.

— Mathew Baynton

“You two. Don't do anything that you consider brilliant. The rest of us will consider it stupid.”

— Quinn Loftis

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

— Carol Zaleski

Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

— David Crystal

It's a brilliant job. I'm literally paying my mortgage by fighting imaginary dragons.

— Rege-Jean Page

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

When we have a brilliant idea, instead of making others think it is ours, why not let them cook and stir the…

— Dale Carnegie

My mother is brilliant; she's the best person in the world and keeps me grounded.

— Dakota Blue Richards

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

— Bruce Springsteen

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

— Thucydides