Brilliance Quotes - Page 9

• Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued; and as soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst upon the world with a brilliance perhaps unknown before.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Growth, World, Today

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• The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.

  Yann Martel

  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Weight, Spinsters

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Thanks for looking out for her, Sage. You're okay. For a human." I almost laughed. "Thanks." "You can say it too, you know." I walked over to Latte and paused. "Say what?" "That I'm okay...for a vampire," he explained. I shook my head, still smiling. "You'll have a hard time getting any Alchemist to admit that. But I can say you're okay for an irreverent party boy with occasional moments of brilliance." "Brilliant? You think I'm brilliant?" He threw his hands skyward. "You hear that, world? Sage says I'm brilliant.

  Richelle Mead

  Thank You, Party, Hard Times

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• Jesmyn Ward is an alchemist. She transmutes pain and loss into gold. Men We Reaped illustrates hardships but thankfully, vitally, it's just as clear about the humor, the intelligence, the tenderness, the brilliance of the folks in DeLisle, Mississippi. A community that's usually wiped off the literary map can't be erased when it's in a book this good.

  Victor LaValle

  Pain, Book, Loss

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• I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh.

  Jim Butcher

  Typical, Pithy, Harry Dresden

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.240, Penguin

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• A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there

  Stephen Fry

  Cutting, Glasses, Fool

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• Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.

  Neal Stephenson

  Eye, Men, Knees

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• Desperation is a millstone. It wears away at the very soul, grinding away pity, kindness, humanity and courage. But sometimes it whets the mind to a sharpened point and creates moments of true brilliance. And standing there, nose tickled by the dusty hide of the stuffed deer head, such a moment visited Mosca Mye.

  Frances Hardinge

  Kindness, Soul, Humanity

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• The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed

  T. D. Jakes

  Art, Morning, Night

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• Fictions are necessary for the people, and the Truth becomes deadly to those who are not strong enough to contemplate it in all its brilliance. In fact, what can there be in common between the vile multitude and sublime wisdom? The Truth must be kept secret, and the masses need a teaching proportioned to their imperfect reason.

  Albert Pike

  Strong, Teaching, People

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• I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants

  Zig Ziglar

  Business, Accomplish Your Goals, Accomplishment

  Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.166, Pelican Publishing

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• The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.

  Bill Maher

  Axes, America, People

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• Here is just emptiness. There is no getting my ego out of the way, and all that stuff. There is just the seeing, shining in great brilliance and clarity.

  Douglas Harding

  Shining, Ego, Stuff

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• On the brilliance of James Brown's dancing − and the frustrations of bad camera-work on dancers:cers: I think James Brown is a genius you know when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the camera-man because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "Show him! Show him!", so I could watch and learn.

  Michael Jackson

  Dance, Frustration, Men

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• The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance of the moon that looks down upon the resorts of summer time. Wise, ripe, and portly, like an old Bacchus, it waxes night after night.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Summer, Wise, Spring

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• In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the last page of The Great Gatsby; the near-religious harmonies of the Beach Boys’ “California Girls”; and the lifelong friendship of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

  Sarah Vowell

  Girl, Beach, Religious

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Moon, Twenties

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.62, Book House

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• People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.

  Janette Rallison

  Night, Sky, People

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.148, Penguin

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• Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

  Peter Gabriel

  Dream, Flower, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.

  John Berendt

  Cities, People, Personality

  John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage

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• The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

  Ian Brown

  Musical Genius, Spots, Masterpiece

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• There's a need for pop. There's a need for radio. There's also a need to understand the brilliance and the depth of jazz and soul - and what hip-hop can be at its most brilliant and what hip-hop can be at its most simplistic.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Hip Hop, Soul, Hips

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

  Gail Levin

  Art, Imagination, Originality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In 325 A.D., the Roman Emperor Constantine decided to unify Rome under a single religion ... Historians still marvel at the brilliance with which Constantine converted the sun-worshipping pagans to Christianity. By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.

  Dan Brown

  Christian, Party, Rome

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