Brilliant Quotes - Page 4

• Eddie Izzard is absolutely brilliant. I would love to write something for him.

  Bruce Vilanch

  Writing

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• I think America has a brilliant future.

  Harold Evans

  Thinking, America, Brilliant Ideas

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• David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

  Tom Brokaw

  Country, Icons, Tragedy

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• It has been argued that British girls are incapable of deep feeling or brilliant acting owing to their lack of temperament. This, I am positive, is not true.

  Ivor Novello

  Girl, Feelings, Acting

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• Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

  Sarah Zettel

  Butlers, Courses, Disturbing

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• I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. The space is wonderful and the acoustics are brilliant.

  Louise Jameson

  Thinking, Space, Quirky

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• In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

  James S. Coleman

  Stars, Athlete, School

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• I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere.

  Morley Safer

  Thinking, Personality, Littles

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• My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run.

  Dennis Conner

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

  Mary MacLane

  Beautiful, Fame, Benign

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• It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

  Douglass North

  Jobs, Playing Chess, Firsts

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• As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams.

  Phil Hartman

  Cute, Men, Competition

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• Mankiewicz was a brilliant director.

  Richard Widmark

  Directors, Brilliant Ideas

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• He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.

  Linda McCartney

  Writing, Mad, Tunes

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• The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

  Clarence Budington Kelland

  Dull, Succeed, Public Speaking

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• It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

  Thucydides

  Reality, Men, People

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• Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

  Toni Collette

  Desert, Hard

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• The World Cup needs a brilliant Brazilian team.

  Alan Hansen

  Team, Needs, World

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• There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.

  Michael Bolton

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Life, Anniversary

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• I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.

  Tom Felton

  Fighting, Thinking, Clubs

  Scholastic interview, www.scholastic.com.

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Spring, Clothes, Eternal

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• You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

  Lee Iacocca

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Lee Iacocca, William Novak (2011). “Iacocca: An Autobiography”, p.16, Bantam

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  Carl Jung

  Thank You, Education, Thankful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1970). “The development of personality”

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• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Charles R. Swindoll (1997). “Three Steps Forwards, Two Steps Back”, p.34, Thomas Nelson Inc

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