Quotes About Brilliance

He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.

My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around.

Defy me not for gleam can only shine in my existence" said Darkness.

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility

Dark with excessive bright.

Know this, and let it somewhat raise your spite, Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Through darkness diamonds spread their richest light.

Henri? He's just the most famous, most creative, most amazing colorist in the universe, that's all!

PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

Her power was the brilliance of her charm and it had brought her to where she was now. I had the feeling that neither her wife nor her son could diminish it. That quality must have condemned her to an ice-cold loneliness.

Robert's extreme gift of intelligence," she said. "I wanted to give

After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.

The good news is you don't need to be brilliant to be wise. The bad news is that without wisdom, brilliance isn't enough.

While many lessons can be found in Frederick's campaigns, the main one would appear to be that his indirectness was too direct. To express this in another way, he regarded the indirect approach as a matter of pure manoeuvre with mobility, instead of a combination of manoeuvre with mobility and surprise. Thus, despite all his brilliance, his economy of force broke down.

I seem to be able to go from part to part without being recognised, which I like. When I was little, I resented it with every fibre of my being when Ma was recognised. Another way of looking at celebrity, though, is it's being famous for being brilliant at something.

I stumbled onto Peggy Feury in the '80s. I recognized her brilliance immediately; it took her awhile to recognize mine.

Eden Hazard is someone who every time he touches the ball you feel he's going to score or pull off an amazing move.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

Between genius and madness there is often not the thickness of a hair.

only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at its disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke.` Georges Bataille, Visions of Excess. Selected Writings 1927-1939, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2004, p. 93

only poetry, exempt from all practical applications, permits one to have at its disposal, to a certain extent, the brilliance and suffocation that Marquis de Sade tried so indecently to provoke.

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

Daniel Radcliffe is one of the hardest working people I have ever encountered and someone that so loves what he's doing and so eager to learn and is so brilliant at what he does.

Messi is a star in every sense. He is not as timid as he seems.