Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

India was a sensation. It was remarkable to see all those parrots flying about, the brilliant foliage and the brilliant sky. It was a tremendous pageant. I never noticed the poverty.

Kirsten Smith

We have a fun record of ripping off Shakespeare. He was brilliant with narrative and complex, twisty plot turns.

We have been working together now as a team for about a month and a half but in reality we have only worked together for five days so I am even happier about how well it is all coming together. Even though it is my home race, there are a lot of drivers here who know the track better than I do. I love Brands, I think it is a brilliant track and after talking to some drivers who had never been here before, after the first session they told me they loved the place. It is a brilliant venue to start the first A1 in the world.

Joan Chen

My brother is a brilliant artist. His oil paintings are really beautiful. And he was the one that taught me what to see - how to see. Colors, lights. And how lights can be so musical.

Danny Meyer

Whole Foods has been brilliant at changing the way food is produced because they just won't buy it if it doesn't meet their standards.

Oscar Wilde

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

That was a great goal. Stevie took it to the flag and crossed it, and Cabrera volleyed it. That was a brilliant goal. That was the one that put the icing on the game.

Marshall Herskovitz

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.

Leatrice Eiseman

White, white, white. I can't emphasize white enough. The human eye perceives it as a brilliant color.

John Beilein

We played just a brilliant first half. We really got after them from the start.

Tatiana Maslany

Robert de Niro has always been fascinating to me. And if John Cazale were still alive, that would be a man I'd love to work with. I'm a big fan of Paul Thomas Anderson's films - I would be honored to work with him. I think he's a brilliant director, and he gets such compelling stories out of his actors and out of his crew.

Douglas Adams

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

Albert Einstein

Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The manager has been doing extra work with the front players and it has been brilliant for us. He is such a great finisher that you cannot help but pick up tips from him.

Henry Winkler

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

Henry Winkler

How you learn has nothing to do with how brilliant you are.

Jon Kyl

He speaks with such economy of words. It is the mark of a really brilliant person who is so clear in his thinking, so precise in his thinking that he can communicate very complex thoughts in just a few well-chosen words,

James Ward

To me, it is just freedom for my race and just overall cultural freedom for everyone and liberty. Martin Luther King Jr. was just a brilliant man in my eyes. If he was here, I would want to thank him for everything he did for us.

CNN Productions has done a brilliant job in unveiling many long-standing mysteries surrounding Jesus.

Any of the remaining three could win and it will be very interesting to see who the cash comes in for during the week. Personally my money would be on the brilliant Bonnie.

John Cornyn

an exceptional judge, brilliant legal mind, and a man of outstanding character who understands his profound duty to follow the law.

As a manager you're always disappointed to see good players leave but Jon is going to a good club and it really is a brilliant move for him.

Jack Reed

After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

Eric Stein was brilliant this whole week and kept us in these games. I am sure he will just get better and better.

Jason Mraz

There's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Steve Harris

Reaction to the tour so far has been brilliant and we're looking forward to putting a great show together for the fans and getting back out on the road to play the new materiel live.

Douglas Booth

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

E. P. Thompson

This guy has become famous for being really, really brilliant and really, really smart about something, but most people have no idea what it is he does.

Jay Rockefeller

a man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.

Elizabeth Taylor

Americans are getting so lazy. Now they have to get up and get some form of exercise. The university has made a brilliant move.

You should put your utmost efforts . I know that, you are the benefactor of brilliant scholars, who are endowed with virtuous qualities.

Mark Burnett

They are brilliant -- including our first-ever MENSA member -- hungry and more international than ever.