Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Gopnik

If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.

Albert Einstein

Brilliant spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Jim Calhoun

We've been brilliant and inconsistent, all within the same season.

Ben Lloyd-Hughes

I come from West London. I support a football team there called Queens Park Rangers, whom I'd like to give a shout-out to. I'm a die-hard Rangers fan. I think that I would always hopefully have a strong connection to and live in London, because it's a brilliant city.

Malorie Blackman

When I wrote 'Noughts and Crosses', I was halfway through it when I realised this was very like 'Romeo and Juliet'... as long as you make it your own, and put your own spin on it, I think it's brilliant to use other great work to find your own voice.

Paul Weller

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.

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.

Douglas Adams

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

Dallas Willard

We don't have to be brilliant.

Bill Frist

With his passing ... the Supreme Court loses one of the most prolific scholars and brilliant minds ever to sit on the federal bench,

Patch Adams

You have a brilliant mind, and like many brilliant people you don't necessarily think the rules apply,

What they didn't realize is that the combination of a warm heart and a brilliant mind has made this man a winner.

Dan Castellaneta

You think I don't want to? It's those TV networks, Marge: they won't let me. One quality show after another, each one fresher and more brilliant than the last. If they only stumbled once, just gave us thirty minutes to ourselves, but they won't! They won't let me live!

Jennifer Lee

As productive and brilliant as he was, he was also self-destructive, ... He said God gave him MS to slow him down. This disease saved his life.

P. J. O'Rourke

The most brilliant satire of all time was 'A Modest Proposal' by Jonathan Swift. You'll notice how everything got straightened out in Ireland within days of that coming out.

Mary McDonnell

It's even more realistic that she's co-running things with Commander Adama - Thank God it's the brilliant Eddie Olmos playing him! I mean, he has the power on this ship.

It's a brilliant rhythm section. The vibe is there and it's really well rehearsed.

It's a brilliant idea. With a few exceptions, most kids (in high school) don't have direction in life and haven't developed a passion yet, except for video games and computers. Fire training is so hands-on and so physical that, for a lot of kids, it's an eye- opener. If they can start developing a passion at 14, 15 or 16 and if it's done right, you can really cause a lifelong love of the fire service.

It's a great tour, and it's great to see so many old friends and make new ones. The players have been brilliant over here. And I know how hard many of the players on this tour have worked, so it's a great opportunity for me to come over here.

Everyone realizes the importance of ASU-Newport, ... Today is a brilliant example of everyone working together, which is what we've been trying to do. ASU-Newport is here to stay and the truck driving school is here to stay and we're proud to have every one of you.

It was classic Cameron: brilliant style, not much substance.

Rupert Grint

It was really weird but also so much fun. I had such a brilliant time on the set.

Oliver Bierhoff

It's more of a managerial position and Peters has produced brilliant results.

Lillian Hellman

It may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant

It's hard to say whether he's making brilliant choices because it's hard to go wrong in Internet stocks, ... It's hard to say whether he's a good stock picker or just lucky.

Amanda Eliasch

All my family were brilliant cooks when I was growing up, but I ended up just cleaning up, so I've always lacked confidence in the kitchen.

Ian Mckellen

I'm brilliant at cooking my stepmother's scrambled egg recipe. The secret is to put eggs, butter, milk, and seasoning together in the saucepan, and to keep stirring with a wooden spoon under a low heat until the preferred consistency is reached.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

Luke Evans

I really loved 'Fast Five.' I thought it was a brilliant movie. I thought it was so well done, well directed. The action sequences were really well thought out. It looked fantastic.

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.

Russ Feingold

The Bush administration did a brilliant job, which has continued until today, not in getting us into the war and handling it correctly, but they did a brilliant job of intimidating us into somehow thinking that if we didn't vote for this, we weren't supporting the troops and we were soft on terror,

Gethin Jenkins

At his time at Llanelli, Phil was a brilliant captain and just an immensely likeable guy. Since he's left Stradey, he's done particularly well, including winning the trophy last year.