The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I was in a taxi the other night, and we started talking about life and the taxi driver goes, 'Chaos and creativity… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
People who do not have funny in them are not funny when they read funny lines. Sorry. Just doesn't work that way.… — David Dobkin Copy Share Image
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved… — George Antheil Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my teachers know much about football. Pretty much every teacher I have is foreign, and UCLA's a… — Josh Rosen Copy Share Image
I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to… — Romola Garai Copy Share Image
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more. — Anna Neagle Copy Share Image
We all know why [the generals] are so critical of the defense secretary. They're being defensive because they weren't able to implement… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Ethics and power are separate. Ethics and morality. I think life would be miserable if there weren't some kind of code that… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the… — James Fox Copy Share Image
There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Bob was fascinating to watch. It was like being a student of Albert Einstein. This guy was really brilliant, and I got… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work,… — Karen Elson Copy Share Image
You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I am not one who needs to be patted on the back every single day and told I am brilliant. Some players… — Phil Jones Copy Share Image