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Quotes About Brilliance

How clever am I? I'm really quite clever. I mean, look, I've got a first-class degree from Oxford.
~ Giles Coren
Genius doesn't always come in neat packages.
~ Jonathan Agnew
The brilliance of nduja is that while you can certainly eat a lot of it very quickly (and nobody would blame you) it is so packed with flavor that even a small amount can go a long way.
~ Chris Morocco
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
~ Charles de Lint
The lucky person passes for a genius.
~ Euripides
The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love, Broke out, to show Its bright incipience sailing above, Still promising to solve, and satisfy, And set unchangeably in order. So To pile them back, to cry, Was hard, without lamely admitting how It had not done so then, and could not now. - Love Songs In Age
~ Philip Larkin
Da una parte il cielo era tutto schiarito, e vi brillavano certe stellucce umide, sperdute nella sua grandezza, come in una sconfinata parete di metallo, da dove, sulla terra, venisse a cadere qualche misero soffio di vento.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
T'insegneranno a non splendere. E tu splendi, invece.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized in John 1, that light is very vivid. When it dispels the darkness, we see the brilliance that's there.
~ Ted Dekker
If you are creative enough to select the ideal vocation, you can win, win big time. The really brilliant millionaires are those who selected a vocation that they love, one that has few competitors but generates high profits.
~ Thomas J. Stanley
Smart is, and has always been, sexy.
~ Deborah Harkness
That's what as an artist you always try to do. To try to be a sharper mind than the average person.
~ Raoul Peck
If you've got the talent it'll shine through.
~ William Regal
brilliant and audacious as ever — a beat poet of paranoia. He
~ Jon Ronson
Quand un vrai génie apparaît en ce bas monde, on peut le reconnaitre à ce signe que les imbéciles sont tous ligués contre lui.
~ Jonathan Swift
Cuando en el mundo aparece un verdadero genio puede reconocérsele por este signo: todos los necios conjuran contra él.
~ Jonathan Swift
The two projects I have indicated (an infinite vocabulary for the natural series of numbers, and a usable mental catalogue of all the images of memory) are lacking in sense, but they reveal a certain stammering greatness. They allow us to make out dimly, or to infer, the dizzying world of Funes
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Man is like a star, they both need to emanate to be.
~ A.D. Smith
She is a star in her own galaxy.
~ Abhishek Singh
My father, for whose skills as a surgeon I have the deepest respect, says, "The operation with the best outcome is the one you decide not to do." Knowing when not to operate, knowing when I am in over my head, knowing when to call for the assistance of a surgeon of my father's caliber--that kind of talent, that kind of "brilliance," goes unheralded.
~ Abraham Verghese
The world has many kings but only one Michelangelo.
~ Pietro Aretino
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.
~ Pliny
A haloed westering sun slanted rays through air brilliant, breathless, and boreal.
~ Poul Anderson
Kita akan belajar Tanca. Kemudian kita akan tahu lebih banyak, mengalahkan lebih gemilang.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer