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For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free. — Anatole France
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught… — Winston Churchill
Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism… — Eric Hoffer
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of… — Oscar Wilde
Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of… — Ray Bradbury
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant,… — Nora Ephron
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets… — Robert Bridges
When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and… — Chogyam Trungpa
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have… — Wendy Beckett
The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color… — Eugene Delacroix
Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the… — Maurice de Vlaminck
It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient! — Martin Scorsese
I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of. — Catherine Zeta-Jones
Bernanke has cultivated this idea that he is a brilliant scholar of The Great Depression, but that’s not true at all. — David Stockman
T was a brilliant feeling to make my debut and to hear the crowd chanting my name. It made me play much better. — Theo Walcott
And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't… — Harsha Bhogle
No matter how brilliant, amusing or intelligent the creek of abstraction, Dadaism, Minimalism and Conceptualism of the 20th century was, it didn't much affect the… — Mark Kostabi
We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit… — Theodore Roosevelt
When a sunbeam falls on a transparent substance, the substance itself becomes brilliant, and radiates light from itself. So too Spirit bearing souls, illumined by… — Saint Basil
There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And… — Theodore Roosevelt
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so… — Steve Jobs
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are… — Davy Crockett
My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy. — Kenneth Kaunda
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write… — Charles Darwin
I'm not going to say that the other people I worked with weren't artist. They were all very great, very talented people, but I think… — Charlie Day

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