Brilliance Quotes

217 Brilliance quotes by 190 unique authors

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. — W.C. Fields
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is… — Ernest Hemingway
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. — Charles Kettering
I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance. — Hedy Lamarr
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. — Ann Landers
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! — Thomas Mann
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. — Jose Marti
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. — Linus Pauling
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. — Jonas Salk
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor… — James Sinegal
I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a… — Danny Strong
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. — Charles R. Swindoll
Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this… — Steve Vai
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. — Michael Eric Dyson
At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;… — Vincent Van Gogh
After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of… — Christopher Paolini
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my… — Connie Willis
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. — Augusten Burroughs
Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints… — Victor Hugo
For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy,… — Doris Lessing
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. — Roald Dahl
Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock… — Arundhati Roy
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in… — Jack Kerouac
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. — Homer

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