Brilliant Quotes

1171 Brilliant quotes by 943 unique authors

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write. — Nikki Giovanni
People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like, `What? You`re married?` Strange reaction to have. Proves what people`s ideas about marriage are. `We`re having a… — Ewan McGregor
As I took another breath, I saw the three stars again. They were not calling to me; they were letting me go, leaving me to… — Stephenie Meyer
He is so brilliant. He shines. He's beautiful with his hands that grab things and his tongue that says things and the way he stands… — Garth Stein
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. — Orson Scott Card
Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies? — Kathy Reichs
Boy is he pissed," said Adrian. "Do you blame him?" asked Christian. "He just lost memerbship in the evil mastermind club. His brilliant plan fell… — Richelle Mead
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I… — H.G. Wells
I can't save you like that Ty. What you did to me wasn't this brilliant thing, like you think it was. You took me away… — Lucy Christopher
It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line. — Ashleigh Brilliant
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they’re doing work that… — Seth Godin
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The brilliant escape, the funny line to cap it, despite the lack of timing. And the girl was still dead. The last act had not… — Paul Cornell
It's not where you take things from — it's where you take them to. — Jean-Luc Godard
You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knos waht warfare is can never go… — Orson Scott Card
I suppose no one is as handsome or as beautiful as he or she wishes, or as brilliant in school or as witty in speech… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they’ll feel they’re… — Ray Bradbury
Kurt Cobain OD'd on heroin before committing suicide, but he also OD'd on fame. Cobain was like Basquiat: They both wanted to be famous, and… — Jay-Z
She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed… — Julie Garwood
The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not… — Michael Jackson
But Margaret was at an age when any apprehension, not absolutely based on a knowledge of facts, is easily banished for a time by a… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Despite the fact that he no longer dressed like the big dork he did then, despite the fact that he’d swapped the nerd wear for… — Alyson Noel
I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a… — Simone Elkeles
One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and… — Maggie Stiefvater

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