Brilliant Quotes

Dr. Peter Boghossian’s A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story to help you fall asleep, but a wakeup call that has the best chance of bringing your rational mind back to life.(Review of Dr. Peter Boghossian's book, 'A Manual for Creating Atheists')

~ Stefan Molyneux

Did you just tease me with more Jim Sterling? Mandi Castle; read her book; Dear Stephanie.

~ Mandi Castle

In any given situation there will always be more dumb people than smart people. We ain't many!

~ Ken Kesey

Some days are better than others. The same can be said about people.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open.And he makes his stunning entry! Kelsier announced, sweeping into the room, throwing back his mistcloak.Dockson snorted, shutting the doors. You're truly a wonder to behold, Kell. Particularly the soot stains on your knees.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.

~ Jean-Dominique Bauby

You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.

~ Arthur Phillips

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

~ Thucydides

Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends

~ Josh Stern

Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so your

~ Brandon Sanderson

I can't tell you how may beautiful women have broken up with me because they were bored. I can't tell you because it never happened. They all adored me. It was your humility, wasn't it?

~ Derek Landy

This isn't the first time I've used this, and the test subject showed no signs of impaired cognitive ability.Who was the test subject? asked Aurora.I test everything out on myself before taking it into the field.She stared at him. You zapped your own brain?And it didn't do me any harm apart from the dizziness and the vomiting spells and the weirdly persistent ringing in my ears. Also the blackouts and the mood swings and the creeping paranoia. Apart from that, zero side effects, if you don't count the numb fingertips. Which I don't.

~ Derek Landy

And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all.

~ P.g. Wodehouse

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

~ Ritchie Blackmore

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.

~ Ritchie Blackmore

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

~ Bill Gross

My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he's on. Otherwise, he's a total recluse - he stays in the house and won't leave, and I'm like that. If I'm not working, I'm locked up in my room.

~ Alessandra Torresani

Lady Gaga has a very unjaded intelligence. It's brilliant, 'cause it's anti-snob.

~ Mika

Judaism is a brilliant religion, and the main function of Judaism is to learn and read.

~ Leon Charney

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

Hitchcock had a charm about him. He was very funny at times. He was incredibly brilliant in his field of suspense.

~ Tippi Hedren

I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics.

~ César Milstein

I lived a pretty chaotic life. I went to England, and I moved around, and there were a lot of things that I was interested in. I wrote poetry. I took photographs. I was a musician and all sorts of things. Nothing brilliant, but I did all these different things.

~ Pawel Pawlikowski

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

~ Daniel Radcliffe