Brilliant Quotes · Page 28

Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.

— Henry David Thoreau

In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

— James S. Coleman

The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

— David Wright

Shun idleness. It is rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.

— Voltaire

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

— Julie London

There are many really stupid ideas that wind up being brilliant, if you can implement them.

— Gene Simmons

I remember how often some of us walked out of the darkness of the Lower East Side and into the brilliant sunlight…

— Harry Golden

“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”

— Marisha Pessl

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their…

— Amanda Hale

I never allowed myself the luxury of those brilliant, beautiful colors until I went to India and saw people walking around in…

— Robert Rauschenberg

Tom Heaton and Jordan Pickford have always been top class. Whenever I've had a good game, they'll always send me a message…

— Aaron Ramsdale

How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the…

— Jules Renard

The best song lyrics seem to me so artful, so brilliant, so warm and humorous, with both passion and wit, that my…

— David Lehman

Whether...a change from the supremacy of natural science to a new social science will take place...depends on one factor: how many brilliant,…

— Erich Fromm

I've always liked what Thomas More said in Utopia, which is that in Utopia every person is allowed their own lifestyle and…

— Jude Law

I come from classical theater training and when I went to college it was a bunch of kids that were hand-picked from…

— Joe Manganiello

My kind of nightmare quote is from Deborah Tolman, who does research on girls and desire and is, I think, brilliant. She…

— Peggy Orenstein

John Carmack, who has become interested in focusing on things other than game development at id, has resigned from the studio. John’s…

— Tim Willits

There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent…

— Audrey Flack

I look at it [Moonlight] and young Alex Hibbert who plays the young Chiron gives such a beautiful performance. By the time…

— Andre Holland

First day working with Tom Hiddleston. He is my ideal as an actor: brilliant, reliable, human, decent, open, and friendly. He charmed…

— Jim Beaver

I spent a lot of my twenties wanting a maid, really. I thought I wanted a relationship, but I just wanted somebody…

— Robbie Williams

For me, working in the fashion industry is about getting to meet the minds behind the brands. Sure, there are nice dinners,…

— Ben Clymer

As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened…

— Henry David Thoreau

I don't want to throw mud at anyone - I really admire Gandhi as a brilliant strategist - but Gandhi was pretty…

— Robert Greene

“I'm not a superhero, but I try to live brilliant in life. At this moment, it's our destiny.”

— Syuqaira

“Bowie takes what's good in everybody else and adds what's brilliant about himself”

— David Mallet director

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

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

— Dakota Blue Richards

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

— Dale Carnegie

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

— David Crystal

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

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Rege-Jean Page

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

— Carol Zaleski

'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'

— Douglas Adams

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either…

— Alan Rickman

Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.

— Anonymous

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

— Ron Chernow

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

— Vanessa Kirby