Quotes About Brilliance

Intensity was more usually reached by way of the solemn than by way of the brilliant, and such a sort of intensity was often arrived at during

Down here everything was dark, but up there the gray conglomerate was being struck by the final light of day to an unanswerable brilliance.

Leunagasolin, such as, oh, the Moss Creature here, brightest

Stars are so much more brilliant when they are allowed to shine.

Luke stared at the meteor, a momentary flare of brilliance...like all life. Nothing really, in the sweep of time. But everything, in the Force.

She glowed like a lighthouse and rolled like the ocean

The Intellectual Life, "Men of genius themselves were great only by bringing all their power to bear on the point on which they had decided to show their full measure." Ericsson couldn't have said it better.)

Their glowed as brightly as any candle in the room.

Imagine what joy it would bring to see his beauty and brilliance shine out more clearly each day. After all, the important thing is the diamond itself, clear and flawless under its film. —Mary Lincoln

Imagine a widely televised report: "Dolphin attacks swimmer!" Such a story would make a new connection in the minds of literally millions of people: Dolphins are dangerous to man (which they are not). Though unusual animal-attack stories are good news fodder, humans are not the favored prey of any predator. (We are somewhat bony, low on meat, and smart as the Dickens.) The point is that your survival brilliance is wasted when you focus on unlikely risks. Unfortunately

D'après mon amie Kim, ai-je dit, c'est signe de profondeur d'âme. Pour elle, le monde est divisé entre les personnes qui envisagent leurs obsèques et les autres. Les artistes et les gens brillants appartiennent à la première catégorie.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and we have rejected the Sermon on the Mount. The world has achieved brilliance without conscience, our world is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Some people's brilliance is in their head. A surgeon's brilliance is in her hands. But there are people who have brilliant hearts. They shine right through them.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.

Oh wow, now that was a clever comeback. He'd surely drop to his knees and bow before my intellectual brilliance.

Control your horse!" Jim snarled. " You control your horse." Oh wow, now that was a clever comeback. He'd surely drop to his knees and bow before my intellectual brilliance.

No excellent soul is exempt from mixture of madness

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Genius is a promontory jutting out of the infinite.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.