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Quotes About Brilliance

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.
~ Paulo Coelho
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Thou art the Sun of other days. They shine by giving back the rays.
~ John Keble
The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed
~ T. D. Jakes
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
... Geniuses have a little extra something. There's that little something that you know is a little different.
~ Billy Eckstine
Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Let us salute all the shadows of this world for the brilliant and enigmatical art they create day and night!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I would dazzle you with brilliance, if I only had the knack. Cause I like you just the way you are.
~ Danny Elfman
inside his head. It was said that savants
~ David Baldacci
There is a kind of white that is more than white, and this was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that repels everything that is inferior to it, and that is almost everything. This was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach. This was that kind of white. This white was aggressively white.
~ David Batchelor
Men can be brilliant and strong, they whispered to one another. But men can be mad, as well. And the mad ones can ruin the world.
~ David Brin
The skies are painted with unnumber'd sparks, They are all fire and every one doth shine
~ William Shakespeare
Edward was at the stage of drunkenness in which the ego glows like a coal, and brilliant people become more inspired, but in which dull people, fired by the same inspiration, become only more dull.
~ William Styron
A jak tak se svými Papíry a Myslí dovádÄ›l, inteligentnÄ›ji se stával stále stále inteligentnÄ›jÅ¡ím a ta jeho inteligence, sama sebou rozmnožená a sama na sobÄ› obkro?mo sedíc, v tak ukrutnou inteligenci pÃ…â"¢er?stala, že ?lovÄ›ka až hr?za jímala!
~ Witold Gombrowicz
If Woody Allen can lose those Mort Sahl mannerisms, he could be a very funny comedian." I wanted to do what he did, I wanted to be like him, I wanted to be him. And that's the problem. You have to be him to get that effect. It wasn't the brilliant jokes, which
~ Woody Allen
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
~ Yann Martel
The stars shone with such fears, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
~ Yann Martel
After all, how can a mere dragon expect to tell a man like yourself what to do? In fact, everyone should stand in awe of your brilliance of finding the only dead end. - Saphira
~ Christopher Paolini
Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Geniuses have the shortest biographies.
~ Claire Messud
Morse, he knew, had the maddeningly brilliant facility for seeing his way through the dark labyrinths of human motive and human behaviour...
~ Colin Dexter
Poland! Poland! The very name carries with it sighings and groanings, nation-murder, brilliance, beauty, patriotism, splendors, self-sacrifice through generations of gallant men and exquisite women; indomitable endurance of bands of noble people carrying through world-wide exile the sacred fire of wrath against the oppressor, and uttering in every clime a cry of appeal to Humanity to rescue Poland.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold.
~ Hermann Weyl