Quotes About Brilliance

Only a man of genius can bare a solitary life.

Beneath their brilliance women have a power as stars have gravity.

Genius" means extraordinary intellectual ability, and people use the word in two different but related ways. In one sense, genius means high intellectual potential; in the other sense, genius means "creative ability of exceptionally high order as demonstrated by total achievement." This book uses both meanings.

but from this distance, the velvety reds, flashing yellows and glassy whites [of the roses] seemed to break up the light of the summer sun into its various elements and cast it back far more brilliantly than any other flower ever could, seemed not exactly of the earth, but of space and air itself.

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines. Holy

If you didn't have anything truly great to offer, something truly amazing, then you should just shut the fuck up.

If somebody is young and brilliant and imaginative, he will be listened to, even if he is a little unorthodox.

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

You either have the magic or you don't. There's no way you can work up to it.

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced.

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

It would be awful. It would be brilliant.

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. —CALVIN, from Calvin and Hobbes

People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.

qué genios tan torturados son. No me convence…

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

Everything Olivia Colman touches turns to gold, she's just so brilliant.

Everyone is brilliant at breakfast.

A genius in the daytime and a beauty at night!