Quotes About Brilliance

As a young actor, I worked with Kevin McNally and have always thought him brilliant.

I love 'The Shining.' Kubrick is pretty amazing.

It's not what Ryodan does," Jo says slowly. "It's more what he is." Her eyes take on a serious sheen. "He's like, unbelievably brilliant, ten steps ahead of everyone else all the time." Bullshit. He's not that smart. I beat him at Triad. Once. About ten thousand years ago.

I want a girl with a mind like a diamond Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Inwardly, Lisa glowed. She was smart in the fourteenth century.

Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.

Our souls flutter Our brains have butterfly brilliance The stars look at us, with their distant light, their giddiness, in their nests of nothing

Infinite Jest is a masterpiece

You should shine with all of your light all the time.

He is so brilliant. He shines. He's beautiful with his hands that grab things and his tongue that says things and the way he stands and chews his food for so long, mashing it into a paste before he swallows.

The poetic image […] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes.

El diamante interior que era su verdadera personalidad brillaba, luminoso, a la vista de todos.

It is as if a large diamond were to be found inside each person. Picture a diamond a foot long. The diamond has a thousand facets, but the facets are covered with dirt and tar. It is the job of the soul to clean each facet until the surface is brilliant and can reflect a rainbow of colors.

Grandiose, pomp- ous, ever confident of his own brilliance (early in life he decided he had read enough, and thereafter practiced a "cerebral hygiene," refusing to read anything new), he felt he had discovered laws governing the development of the human race that were "as definite as those determining the fall of a stone".

Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness.

I believe is a common fallacy among intellectuals, that to say someone is "bright," even "brilliant," as was said of Silber, is equivalent to saying someone is good. Silber and I clashed almost immediately. What seemed to infuriate him was that I dared to criticize him publicly and unsparingly.

This is what men call genius, just as they call a painted face beauty and a richly attired figure majesty. The confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud.

Not for the first time, Bond felt his spine crawl at the cold, brilliant efficiency of the Soviet machine, and at the fear of death and torture which made it work and of which the supreme engine was SMERSH--SMERSH, the very whisper of death.

Instead, dull to the point of brilliance, vapid beyond invention, his banality as finely wrought as the arabesques of the Blue Mosque

Men who got the best results were obsessive, preoccupied, and single-minded—"on the verge between brilliance and being crazy.

If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around.

I've seen 'True Detective' end-to-end at least three times; I'll probably see it again. It is a work of dark brilliance. But if the phone goes fifteen minutes from the end of that last episode, I'll likely turn it off and go make coffee when I'm done with the call.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Kendrick is a true genius artist.