Brilliant Quotes - Page 35

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  I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

  Davy Crockett

  Eye, Men, World

  Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

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• My own child, one of them, died of AIDS. A brilliant boy.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Children, Boys, Aids

  "Ex-freedom fighter Kenneth Kaunda on Africa's new battles", www.cnn.com. August 4, 2010.

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• People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley].

  Charles Darwin

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I'm not going to say that the other people I worked with weren't artist. They were all very great, very talented people, but I think Guillermo [del Toro] will go down in cinematic history as one of our more talented, visually brilliant directors.

  Charlie Day

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• John Ottman's music has emerged...as a brilliant new sound in the spectrum of Motion Pictures.

  John Badham

  Sound, Motion Pictures, Spectrum

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• I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Ascent, Sequence

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Once upon a time, began the story of you.Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened.And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are.Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story.

  Vera Nazarian

  Profound, Once Upon A Time, Stories

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• Succeed and you are a brilliant visionary. Fail and you are a delusional loser.

  Don Dodge

  Visionaries, Succeed, Loser

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• Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Wall, Passion, Artist

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• If Christ be a fraud, he was among the most peculiar yet brilliant of frauds in saying that only he was the way, the truth, and the life. This is the importance of grace - some people think that simply being nice and not harming others is morality; others think that following rules and tithing are morality. But without Christ, all moral beliefs ultimately boil down to the one sin which perpetually rails against the concept of grace: man's lawful, religious, and futile attempt at establishing his own righteousness.

  Criss Jami

  Religious, Nice, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.15, Criss Jami

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• Steven Hawking is a brilliant physicist and when it comes to theology I can say he's a brilliant physicist.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Theology, Physicist, I Can

  "Pope's astronomer says he would baptise an alien if it asked him" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2010.

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• 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.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Wife

  "Churchill by Himself". Book by Richard Langworth, p. 511, 2008.

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• It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions; but such a talent is inadequate. A better sort of talent neglects these extraneous ornaments, unworthy to be used in the service of the Gospel: such a preacher's sermon will be simple, strong and Christian.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Christian, People, Style

  "Of The Pulpit". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature

  Sylvia Brownrigg

  Years, Year End, Mind

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• You will stay up all night reading this brilliant and devastating novel the way you might have with a new best friend in junior high-one whose revelations thrilled and terrified you, and whose raw, hard-earned wisdom remade the way you saw the world. It evokes the genius of Angela Pneumans canonical progenitors: Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy. Lay It on My Heart is a gorgeous, riveting, and unforgettable book.

  Julie Orringer

  Reading, Book, Heart

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• If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

  Jayne Anne Phillips

  Wind, Silence, Vibrations

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• A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

  Paul McCartney

  Memories, Writing, Artist

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• The brilliant thing about baseball is you're never really out of it - things can turn around in this game so quickly.

  David Wright

  Baseball, Games, Turns

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

  David Gelernter

  Book, Units

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Like I said about Seinfeld and Chris Rock, they're a great combination of brilliance and hard work. [But] there are people who are brilliant and don't work hard, and there are people who are brilliant and sabotage themselves.

  Sarah Silverman

  Hard Work, Rocks, People

  "Sick in the Head: Conversations About life and Comedy". Book by Judd Apatow, 2015.

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• How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Memories, Moving, Book

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• In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

  Richard Lederer

  Dark, Men, Humanity

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• Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Night, Men, Light

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• Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large numbers. ... he is only minimally interested in the proper intellectual significance of images and objects. Such people are not really intellectuals, but visuals ... A visual is more interested in style than in content ... A visual does not feel a rioting crowd being machine-gunned by the police, he simply sees a brilliant news photograph.

  John Fowles

  War, Numbers, People

  "The Aristos: A Self-Portrait in Ideas". Book by John Fowles, 1964.

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• [My breasts] had a pretty good career. I’ve basically been tagging along for the ride.

  Pamela Anderson

  Careers, Breasts, Tagged

  Interview with Lina Das, www.mailonsunday.co.uk. September 20, 2008.

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