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The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going… — Sean O'Casey
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had… — Marie Corelli
What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ... — Alan Hollinghurst
Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and… — Deborah Eisenberg
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar. — Oscar Wilde
You weren't born to fit in. You were born to be brilliant. — Simon T. Bailey
Julie Christie was absolutely amazing in Away From Her. Brilliant movie. It was the moving story of a woman who forgets her own husband. Hillary… — Jon Stewart
Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of… — Peter Orner
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in… — Douglas MacArthur
In diplomacy, as in life itself, one often learns more from failures than from successes. Triumphs will seem, in retrospect, to be foreordained, a series… — Richard Holbrooke
Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem… — Dale Carnegie
Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark my… — Debby Applegate
In years to come cities will stretch out horizontally and will be non-urban (Los Angeles). After that, they will bury themselves in the ground and… — Jean Baudrillard
When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but… — Annabelle Selldorf
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
I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would characterize you as a brilliant, avant-garde, forward-thinking genius. There's some… — Michael Eisner
With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album… — Bill Milkowski
Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. — Camille Paglia
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and élan. Splendid. — Stacy Schiff
I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a… — Tiffeny Milbrett
Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists. — Adrian McKinty
I think the credit crunch is a brilliant thing. We should all stop moaning and start celebrating. When times are tough, it's an opportunity to… — Jarvis Cocker
Once I got home, I sulked for a while. All my brilliant plans foiled by thermodynamics. Damn you, Entropy! — Andy Weir
Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms, chaos theory and… — Lyn Gardner

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