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Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow. — Henry Winkler
I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every… — Steven Wright
A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is… — Boris Yeltsin
Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or… — Dweezil Zappa
Angry Birds is one of the fastest-growing online products I've seen, growing even faster than Skype, and the company has done a brilliant job of… — Niklas Zennstrom
In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing… — Catherine Zeta-Jones
...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the… — Edgar Allan Poe
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled… — Jack London
I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to flock… — Dorothy Parker
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. — Oscar Wilde
It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how. — Ann Patchett
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to… — J. G. Ballard
Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant. — Paulo Coelho
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is… — Victor Hugo
In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a… — James Wright
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and… — Nick Hornby
Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing. — Therese of Lisieux
You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations. — Gavin de Becker
If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who… — Temple Grandin
But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely… — J D Salinger
We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another… — Sam Harris
Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants.… — Louise Rennison
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what could I tell her about those things that she didn't… — Markus Zusak
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,… — Haruki Murakami
Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal… — Victor Hugo

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