“Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.” — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“External beauty is certainly cool to admire, but when worshipped - it eclipses internal shine.” — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Helping people develop their own brilliance is much more effective than giving them yours — Garrison Wynn Copy Share Image
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“If we only live through the eyes of the others and don’t try to capture the vibration of our own individual experience,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
“There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and… — Steve Vai Copy Share Image
Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts.… — Gennifer Choldenko Copy Share Image
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I understood that every flower created by Him is beautiful, that the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had stayed up all night, my friends and I, under hanging mosque lamps with domes of filigreed brass, domes starred like… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
That is something I try to stress to the wrestlers nowadays - there is an epidemic of spot monkeys in the business.… — Matt Hardy Copy Share Image
There are movies where I've walked onto the set and felt, "This is home," and I'm confident in myself and my work,… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just… — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
I would say the only one person I know of who kind of combines the elements that my father brought to the… — John Buffalo Mailer Copy Share Image
There seems to be an assumption that if you're offended by movie brutality, you are somehow playing into the hands of the… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
It's family, and it's faith, and it's friends, and it's not the glamour of the Presidency, or the wonder of going to… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I can't deceive myself out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
All my films have turned out well only because of the director's brilliance, not because of me. — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality. — Gail Levin Copy Share Image
“A tiny bit of brilliance rubs off on you every time you interact with someone brilliant.” — Hrishikesh Agnihotri Copy Share Image
Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance. — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning? — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I believe that refusing to quit and refusing to fail will trump talent and brilliance in the end. — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
