With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
When I was in high school I saw Steven Wright, a brilliant one-liner comedian, and I thought: 'That's what I should do;… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When it comes to work, I'm not competitive at all. Having Cara as my baby, I had to learn quite quickly that… — Poppy Delevingne Copy Share Image
Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to… — Marshall Herskovitz Copy Share Image
When the Lord is your confidence you will never find yourself at all deceived by the ways and speech of men and… — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene.… — John Schlesinger Copy Share Image
It's important not to overstate the benefits of ideas. Quite frankly, I know it's kind of a romantic notion that you're just… — Sergey Brin Copy Share Image
Even if corners were cut, (Iran-Contra) was a brilliant scheme. There is no possibility that anyone in any Democratic administration would have… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Worship is yet another paradox of the religious life: it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith. Worship… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If she were religious, she would call it the soul. It is more than the sum of her intellect and her emotions,… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I've not had to ask permission from Geraldine to take the job. I'm one of the few men in this life who… — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to… — Rafael Yglesias Copy Share Image
I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
The lawyer refused to tell me my brother's name, and my colleagues started a betting pool. The leading candidate: John Travolta. I… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes,… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
What is the crowning glory of your civilization... the symbol as clear a statement as the pyramids, the Parthenon, the cathedrals? What… — George Nelson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Being a Portsmouth fan, I was able to go to the final in 2008, when they beat Cardiff. I went to the… — Mason Mount Copy Share Image
The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to… — Frank Luntz 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
Sarah Cornwell has a brilliant eye for the telling detail, and a wonderfully original way of embodying family history. I was captivated… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother,… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again… — Michael Biehn Copy Share Image
Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, I think "Portlandia" is really funny, and quite brilliant, but I like to be in a city where… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image