Quotes About Brilliance

'Midnight Cowboy' is an exquisite piece of filmmaking. It's insane.

I'm obsessed with Maggie Smith - the way that she can be the most brilliant actress in every single situation and then do Harry Potter, and still make me cry while she's casting spells with a wand?

I think why people relate to 'Star Wars' is George Lucas is so brilliant at telling these stories that we relate to, but in such a fantastic environment with fantastic characters and things you want to believe in this story.

Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.

A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

I was carrying the sun within myself and could do nothing to impede the tremendous light I was radiating.

I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.

50 Cent is a brilliant marketer.

Chris Messina is awesome. He's amazing.

There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.

If I could have any superpower, I would want hyper-intelligence.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures.

The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.

The color on the new Zenith was more than good; it was nearly occult.

The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate— it is life, intensified, brilliant life. ALAIN ARIAS-MISSON

There's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity. . . . we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colours and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

Los chinos, por su parte, aman también el jade, pero es que quizás seamos los orientales los últimos que sentimos fascinación por estos pedruscos de aspecto extrañamente turbio, en los que parece que haya cuajado un aire viejo, de siglos, piedras que encierran en lo más profundo un brillo opaco, como estancado.

We can talk about our dreams all night, Lisette. We can talk forever, for the rest of our lives, living one adventure after another, I promise. But not now, my darling Lisette. For now, all I can think of is the brilliance of yet another ancient Greek, Sophocles. He said, 'One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life-that word is love.' I love you, Lisette. You bring my life joy I've never known. Please, marry me.

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

Genius: the superhuman in man.