Brilliant Quotes - Page 36

• The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.

  Alain de Botton

  Blessed, Humble, Men

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2008.

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• If I had a child actor, I would wish for it to be in an Adam Sandler movie, because he just comes in and makes them so comfortable and is so brilliant with them and they all go home and they that they've got this special relationship.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Children, Home, Special

  The MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. June 19, 2006.

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• The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.

  Dominic Cooper

  Guy, Looks, Stuff

  "Dominic Cooper Talks the Scope of the Film, Finding the Tone, Returning for Captain America 2, and More on the Set of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. June 13, 2012.

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• The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

  James Elkins

  Oil, Discovery, Unexpected

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent replication of life, but these are not merely replications. These paintings are often out of life scale, varying from over life-size to under life-size, from brilliant, heightened color to pale, undertone hues.

  Audrey Flack

  Powerful, Lying, Color

  Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult

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• I have no doubt that Brian May would have had a brilliant career in science had he completed his Ph.D. in 1971.

  Garik Israelian

  Careers, Doubt, May

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• Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

  Mika

  Causes, Gaga, Snob

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• Jack Reacher is a brilliant movie

  Ken Follett

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• We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes - while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes

  Fujio Cho

  Average, Differences, People

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• The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

  Willa Cather

  Men, Age, Goes On

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.

  Steve Jobs

  Clever, Years, Ducks

  "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company". Book by Owen W. Linzmayer, 2004.

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• The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Sunshine, Youth, Tempest

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• It {France} may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

  Lillian Hellman

  Country, World, May

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• There are very few really brilliant men who have not had at least one madman among their ancestors.

  Andre Maurois

  Men, Madmen, Ancestor

  "The Silence of Colonel Bramble". Book by Andre Maurois, 1918.

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• It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Profound, Poetry, May

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…”, p.52, e-artnow

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• Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Use, Pseudo, Ass

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 55e), 1980.

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• The post-war "publish or perish" tyranny must end. The profession has become obsessed with quantity rather than quality. [...] One brilliant article should outweigh one mediocre book.

  Camille Paglia

  War, Book, Quality

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Greek, Musical

  Histories 16.91.5-6,

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• The brilliant creative core of capitalism ... is the story the entrepreneurs and capital investors tell themselves about the future. How they intend to alter it, what they expect to gain in return, where they will raise the capital to accomplish their vision. Many of their stories turn out to be flawed or mistaken, of course, but the capacity to envision a set of future events and then act to fulfill them is a central source of capitalism's strength and its dominance of society.

  William Greider

  Entrepreneur, Creative, Vision

  William Greider (2003). “The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• Brilliant lecturers shouldn't be wasted in lecture rooms: they should appear onTV. We need black market universities, in which people just help each other, and which don't leave out the poor.

  Theodore Zeldin

  People, Black, Needs

  1995 Quoted in Christina Hardyment 'Zeldin and the art of human relationships', in Oxford Today, vol.7, no.2, Hilary Issue.

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• Priestly celibacy has been guarded by the Church for centuries as a brilliant jewel, and retains its value undiminished even in our time when the outlook of men and the state of the world have undergone such profound changes.

  Pope Paul VI

  Men, Jewels, Profound

  "Sacerdotalis Caelibatus". Encyclical of Pope Paul VI, w2.vatican.va. June 24, 1967.

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• I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.

  Kate Moss

  Couple, Cleavage, Swear

  New York Times Magazine, 1994.

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• 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.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Art, Silence, Emotion

  Cine Blitz, 2004.

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• Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

  Benjamin Graham

  Achievement, Forever, Growth

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• I am not a conservative but I have spoken out for years against the staggering amount blind hatred directed at black conservatives by liberals. Liberals are shockingly quick to demean and dismiss brilliant black people like Rice, Carson, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), Professor Walter E. Williams and economist Thomas Sowell because they don't fit into the role they have carved out for a black person in America. Black Americans must be obedient liberals on all things or risk being called a race traitor or an Uncle Tom.

  Juan Williams

  Education, Uncles, America

  "Rutgers rage against Rice -- why do liberals have so much hate for black conservatives?" by Juan Williams, www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2014.

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