Brilliant Quotes - Page 5

• I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  Jack London

  Inspirational, Life, Ambition

  Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson, (p. 191), March 15, 1996.

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Breakfast Food

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.15, Oscar Wilde

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• Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Light, Two

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• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

  Salvador Dali

  Love, Memories, Real

  Salvador Dali (2013). “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

  Tony Visconti

  Father, School, College

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• Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

  Richard Bach

  Fire, Perfection, Littles

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• To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.

  Max Beerbohm

  Giving, Needs, Periods

  The Yellow Book, Jan. 1895

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• I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Attitude, Way, Hendrix

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• I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Attitude, Player, Hendrix

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• Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

  Tim Burton

  Real, Actors, Pushing

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

  Ron Chernow

  Father, Vision, Systematic

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• I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

  Winston Churchill

  Sorry, Poor, Rejoice

  Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Powerful, America, Champion

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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• Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Needs, Underestimate, Fierce

  Theodore Dreiser, Roark Mulligan (2010). “The Financier: The Critical Edition”, p.264, University of Illinois Press

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• The sets were fantastic. The Harry Potter sets are brilliant. You do get transported for a second.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Potters, Fantastic, Harry Potter

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• At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Money, Business

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• The woman poet must be either a sexless, reclusive eccentric, with nothing to say specifically to women, or a brilliant, tragic, tortured suicide.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Suicide, Eccentric, Poet

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• Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

  Randy Jackson

  Men, Voice, Giving

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• Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

  Chris Martin

  Intelligent, World, Fans

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• All you have to do is to look like crap on film and everyone thinks you're a brilliant actress. Actually, all you've done is look like crap.

  Helen Mirren

  Thinking, Looks, Done

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• 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.

  Robin Wright

  Acting, Actors, Levels

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• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Blessed, Enemy, Energy

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• Adam Sandler is truly brilliant. He plays these goofy characters, but he is a brilliant fellow.

  Henry Winkler

  Character, Play, Goofy

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• A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

  Boris Yeltsin

  Mean, Men, Flames

  "The wit and wisdom of Boris". www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

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