Brilliance Quotes

217 Brilliance quotes by 190 unique authors

The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they… — Edward Abbey
Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right… — Gennifer Choldenko
Regarding The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: The Music Man (for which Willson also wrote the lyrics) is an astonishing creation. It came in a… — Meredith Willson
We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats,… — Bo Sanchez
Experience trumps brilliance. — Thomas Sowell
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man… — Constance Hale
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he… — Unknown Author
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is… — Max Stirner
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their aeriform state to… — Nick Tosches
Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection. — Michelle Obama
You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers.… — Marc Chagall
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten… — D. H. Lawrence
The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with… — Gaston Bachelard
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. — Cheikh Anta Diop
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English… — Michael Swanwick
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder. — Mary Balogh
Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself. — Iyanla Vanzant
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the… — Kathy Reichs
There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. — Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world… — Hannah Szenes
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. — Cyril Cusack
There had been a frozen mist here, and the trees were spun into feathers. Their fragile brilliance made me wonder why, into the spotlessness of… — Maria McCann
Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is the the soul with its… — Michael Leunig
How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more… — Joe Posnanski
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must. — Seth Godin

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