Brilliant Quotes - page 4

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose. (Dan Brown)
A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. View quote
Winston Churchill
My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half. View quote
Winston Churchill
The truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. View quote
Joseph Conrad
Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. View quote
Patrick Marber
We had forgotten the art of using silence to convey emotions in our films and that's what you seem to have mastered. You've used silence to great advantage in the film. It's brilliant. View quote
Amitabh Bachchan
I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot. View quote
Rick Riordan
Now the tattoos," Zia announced. "Brilliant!" I said. "On your tongue," she added. "Excuse me? View quote
Rick Riordan
It isn't easy being a brilliant inventor, always alone. Always misunderstood. Easy to turn bitter, make horrible mistakes. People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. -Hephaestus. (Rick Riordan)
Doughboy, we need to talk.” Doughboy opened his wax eyes. "Finally! You realize how stuffy it is in there? At last you've remembered that you need my brilliant guidance.” "Actually we need to become a coat. View quote
Rick Riordan
Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at their uniqueness and glory. But eventually they are gone, brown, crumbling, scattered on the wind. But the tree remains. The tree is what is important. The tree lives on. That was a difficult knowledge to bear, and an even more difficult life to live. Of course, being the leaf wasn't exactly desirable either. View quote
Rob Thurman
I used to ask Sean questions about acting. He's a brilliant actor, but I could never digest his information. I work primarily on an intuitive level. View quote
Robin Wright
All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people. View quote
Robert Greene
Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing. View quote
Sarah Zettel
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India. View quote
Siddhartha Mukherjee
If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman. View quote
Tamara Mellon
I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good. View quote
Tom Felton
Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times. View quote
Thomas J. Sargent
In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law - in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy. (Philip K. Dick)
You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?" "I'm not that clever, Eric." "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile. View quote
Charlaine Harris
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man. View quote
Brendan Fraser
The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time. View quote
Galina Vishnevskaya
Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow. View quote
Deb Caletti