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"Only dull people are Brilliant at breakfast." »Oscar Wilde
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"A man should never despise himself, for Brilliant success never attends on the man who is contemned by himself." »Mahabharata
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"Memory is not so Brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true." »George Dennison Prentice
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"Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be Brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, then happiness as we can manage it." »Orson Scott Card
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"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the Brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." »Winston Churchill
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"The man who gets the most satisfactory results is not always the man with the most Brilliant single mind, but rather the man who can best coordinate the brains and talents of his associates." »Sir William Alton Jones
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"No matter how Brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage." »J. Lawton Collins
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"It wasn't that Microsoft was so Brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated." »Steve Jobs
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"The lightning-bug is Brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug" »Eugene F. Ware
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"Often we forget to acknowledge the Brilliant minds around us, in the process of impressing the small minds." »Siddharth Astir
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"The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most Brilliant." »Salvador Dali
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"Even though he was an enemy of mine, I had to admit that what he had accomplished was a Brilliant piece of strategy. First, he punched me, then he kicked me, then he punched me again." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a Brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd." »From the I Ching
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"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and Brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination." »Albert Einstein
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"Laughing is peculiar to man, but all men do not laugh for the same reason. There is the attic salt which springs from the charm in the words, from the flash of wit, from the spirited and Brilliant sally. There is the low joke which arises from scurrility and idle conceit." »Goldoni
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"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the Brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's Brilliant nonsense." »Douglas Noel Adams
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"An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the Brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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 Gustav Jung
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"An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the Brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. 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
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"I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a Brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." »Jack London
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"But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The Brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others." »Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
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"Nothing discernable to the eye of the spirit is more Brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidible, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul." »Victor Hugo, Les Miserables
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"I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark should burn out in a Brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by a dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a magnificient glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time." »Jack London, Personal Credo
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"No, let us not make God in our image, poor inhabitants that we are of a distant planet lost in infinite space. However Brilliant and sublime our intelligence may be, it is scarcely more than a small spark which shines and in an instant is extinguished, and it alone can give us no idea of that blaze, that conflagration, that ocean of light!" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Should we continue to look upwards Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished The ideal is terrifying to behold, lost as it is in the depths, small, isolated, a pin-point, Brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds. (Les Miserables)" »Victor Hugo
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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
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be Brilliant, gorgeous,talented and fabulous Actually, who are you not to be You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." »Marianne Williamson
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