Brilliant Quotes - Page 35

• In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

  Jane Byrne

  Ideas, People, Way

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• Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Couple, Ideas, Way

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• A lot of young filmmakers bring their movies to my dad because he always gives lots of good editing ideas and notes. He'd be a good film professor.

  Sofia Coppola

  Dad, Editing, Ideas

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• I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

  James Longstreet

  Ideas, Campaigns, Fancy

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• We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

  John Poindexter

  Ideas, Wanted, Brilliant Ideas

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• We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

  John Schlesinger

  Perfectly Good, Ideas, Done

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• In the past, it was easier to believe in my own effectiveness. If I worked hard, with good colleagues and good ideas, we could make a difference. But now, I sincerely doubt that.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Past, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.327, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.

  John Anderson

  Government, Ideas, People

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• I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

  Vincent Gallo

  Lonely, Ideas, Feel Good

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• But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.

  Mitchell Reiss

  Real, Commitment, Eye

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• I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.

  Christopher Parker

  Thinking, Awards, Ideas

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• There really was nothing like it at the time. We had good ideas for implementation, so we proceeded. I think it was an excellent solution to the reliability issues with existing search engines.

  Shawn Fanning

  Thinking, Ideas, Issues

  "Q&A: Napster creator Shawn Fanning". Interview with Giancarlo Varanini, March 3, 2000.

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• I think a good MP is someone who cares for their community and becomes their champion, which is why I will make my home in any seat I am lucky enough to be selected for. Looks play no part in the equation, what matters is your ideas and connecting them to the electorate.

  Adam Rickitt

  Home, Thinking, What Matters

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• Let us award a just, a brilliant homage to those rare men whom nature has endowed with the precious privilege of arranging a thousand isolated facts, of making seductive theories spring from them; but let us not forget to state, that the scythe of the reaper had cut the stalks before one had thought of uniting them into sheaves!

  Francois Arago

  Nature, Spring, Cutting

  François Arago, Robert GRANT (F.R.A.S.), Baden Powell, William Henry SMYTH (Rear Admiral.) (1857). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men ... Translated by ... W. H. Smyth ... the Rev. Baden Powell ... and R. Grant”, p.264

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• We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

  Patrick Marber

  Love, Men, Age

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• I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

  Frank Bettger

  People, Worry, Trying

  Frank Bettger (2009). “How I Raised Myself From Failure”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

  Winston Churchill

  Reflection, Orange, Keys

  Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

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• The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

  Richard Stearns

  Love, Beautiful, Christian

  Richard Stearns (2014). “Unfinished: Filling the Hole in Our Gospel”, p.78, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

  Maya Angelou

  Teacher, Teaching, Believe

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.166, Modern Library

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• Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother.

  James Fox

  Mother, Loving Life, Wife

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• The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-coloured bulbs of man-rayed luminance. A glowing valley of the shadow of life. The strolling crowd went slowly by through the kinematically divine thoroughfare of New York.

  Sean O'Casey

  New York, Night, Men

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.160, Faber & Faber

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• 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.

  Marie Corelli

  Fate, Thinking, Two

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• What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Technique, Problem, Squandering

  Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Stars, Dancer, Intuition

  Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Grammar

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