Brilliant Quotes - Page 31

• How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.

  Jules Renard

  Flower, Fall, Delicate Things

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.62, Tin House Books

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• The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Interesting, Peculiar, Horizon

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• Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
  Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
  Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
  Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
  Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
  Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
  Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
  Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

  George Meredith

  Song, Laughter, Sunset

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Marriage, Facts, Mankind

  Walter Bagehot (1872). “The English Constitution ... Reprinted from the"Fortnightly Review."”, p.38

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• Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

  John Lahr

  Spiritual, White, America

  "Hard Sell" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Taken, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

  A. N. Wilson

  People, Done, Research

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• For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancée ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant colours. Upon his engagement to Johanne Osthof of Brunswick; they married 9 Oct 1805.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Spring, Angel, Science

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• I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.

  Maeve Binchy

  Home, Writing, Israel

  Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2007.

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• The market is a brilliant system for the exchange of goods and services, but it doesn't protect the environment unless it's regulated, it doesn't train your workforce unless it's regulated, and it doesn't give you the long-term investment you want.

  Ken Livingstone

  Long, Giving, Want

  "I would have loved to be PM" by John Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2008.

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• The explanation of the propensity of the English people to portrait painting is to be found in their relish for a Fact. Let a man do the grandest things, fight the greatest battles, or be distinguished by the most brilliant personal heroism, yet the English people would prefer his portrait to a painting of the great deed. The likeness they can judge of; his existence is a Fact. But the truth of the picture of his deeds they cannot judge of, for they have no imagination.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Fighting, Men, People

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• The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason.

  John Singer Sargent

  Book, Technique, Different

  "John Sargent". Book by K.C. Charteris, p. 1231927, 1927.

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• Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired.

  Greg Bear

  Friendship, Long, Inspire

  "Sci-fi scribes on Ray Bradbury: 'Storyteller, showman and alchemist'" by John Joseph Adams, www.wired.com. June 06, 2012.

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• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Jobs, Hair, Best Job

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• I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, Lines, Too Much

  "Julie Brown Finds New "Vague Celebrities" to Poke Fun At". Interview with Robyn Ross, www.tvguide.com. November 16, 2010.

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• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

  Michael Biehn

  Shining, Cuckoos, Actors

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• I love getting dressed up. Being a pop star is the most brilliant job for that. A lot of girls love shopping, but they might see the most amazing outfit and think, 'When am I going to wear that?', so it's my duty to exploit the fact I do have events I can wear these things to.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Girl, Jobs, Stars

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• I'm a huge fan of 'Community'; it's, I think, one of the most brilliant comedy on television and has been for a long time.

  Emma Caulfield

  Thinking, Long, Community

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• I think 'Breaking Bad' is brilliant. Good drama in the U.S. is also so funny and blurs the line between light and dark.

  Arthur Darvill

  Drama, Dark, Thinking

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• When I was young, my mum was part of a brilliant puppet theatre that toured all over the world.

  Arthur Darvill

  Theatre, World, Puppets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Meryl Streep's brilliant, just brilliant. I've been fortunate to do two movies with Meryl. And for an actor to go moment to moment like she does, there's no one better. And she dances between moments. Each take is different because she's riding instincts, she's riding impulses. And she trusts that.

  Jeff Daniels

  Two, Riding, Doe

  "Jeff Daniels: Anchoring The Cast Of 'The Newsroom'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 20, 2012.

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• I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Actors, Just Being, Moments

  "Ioan Gruffudd - Exclusive Collider Interview". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. November 13, 2007.

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• Magne Furuholmen is a very dear friend of mine. A-ha are a classic pop band and they've got some brilliant songs. I'd say 'The Living Daylights' was one of my favourite Bond tunes: regardless of it being a Bond song, it stands alone as a great piece of music.

  Guy Berryman

  Song, Tunes, Band

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• Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in America” is a brilliant movie. It’s about four hours long, but it’s so well done.

  Erik Estrada

  America, Long, Once Upon A Time

  "‘Chips’ Star Erik Estrada Preps For Dance Competition, Takes Our Pop Quiz". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 8, 2011.

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• So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

  Bruce Springsteen

  Relationship, Baby, Eye

  Song: Brilliant Disguise, Album: Tunnel Of Love, 1987

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