Brilliant Quotes · Page 22

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

— Dennis Conner

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past,

— William J. Clinton

I don't think I'm a brilliant writer, but I'm a good writer, and it's just so empowering to get involved.

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence.

— Richard Dawkins

I'm not saying 'The Godfather' trilogy was bad - because it was brilliant - but that was fiction. It was based on…

— Frank Vincent

The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant.

— Will Shetterly

If my favourite director gives me a role that is very sparkly? A very brilliant character? I'll do it.

— Bae Doona

If someone came to me and said, "Your strategy in your post-presidency is brilliant," as if I had figured out a way…

— George W. Bush

Would you go to see a brilliant actor who's been framed for something that he didn't do, and put him on a…

— Jerry Stiller

When we're in the shower, when we're thinking about our idea - boy, does it sound brilliant. But the reality is that…

— Eric Ries

“And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Gemma Arterton in 'The Master Builder' at the Almeida - she was absolutely brilliant. Ibsen is difficult and quite hard to follow,…

— Luke Evans

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

S. J. Keyser is a shrewd and insightful observer of academe. His experiences in three universities, Brandeis, UMass, and MIT, enrich his…

— Anonymous

There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile -…

— Cornell Woolrich

“Was [Steve Jobs] smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical.…

— Walter Isaacson

Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the…

— Claudia Emerson

I think that [Donald] Trump is brilliant to raise this issue. When my son, Gabriel, and his wife, Deb, was pregnant, I…

— Donald Trump

Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff…

— Terry Pratchett

Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when…

— Pema Chodron

I think about the story while I think about other things. This is an important part of the process: I look at…

— Aleksandar Hemon

In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality'…

— Philip K. Dick

Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in…

— Fuxi

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.

— Thom Yorke

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.

— Thomas Watson, Jr

Phil Jackson was a brilliant basketball coach, not just because of the offense that he employed, but it was so many other…

— Jeff Van Gundy

'The 24 Hour Plays' is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

— Kevin Spacey

Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

If you do a brilliant work and if the audience don't like it, what's the point.

— Vikrant Massey

“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”

— Arthur Phillips

Mission Ignition' was really brilliant. Each show was made in a day. It wasnt staged, we made each show in a day,…

— Dario Franchitti

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a…

— David LaMotte

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big…

— Rob Marshall

Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

— Lord Byron

In theatre, I loved doing '2nd May 1997' at the Bush. Jack Thorne is a brilliant writer, and it was really exciting…

— Hugh Skinner

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.”

— Jean-Dominique Bauby