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If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. -- W. C. Fields
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. -- Cyril Cusack
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. -- John Mortimer
Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. -- Jose Marti
I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance. -- Hedy Lamarr
Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset. -- Ann Landers
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. -- Robert Bresson
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! -- Thomas Mann
When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact. -- Warren Buffett
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. -- Ernest Hemingway
I shouldn't be saying this - high treason, really - but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting brilliance that may not really be there. -- Stephen Fry
Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. -- T. S. Eliot
Simplicity is the key to brilliance. -- Bruce Lee
A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. -- Charles Kettering
Brilliance is impossible without a touch of insanity. -- Skyla Madi
Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion. -- Margaret Mitchell
I wasn't sure how I'd feel about breastfeeding, but quickly realized its brilliance. -- Kelis
Never underestimate someone with Autism, because there could be Brilliance struggling to get out. -- Stuart Duncan
The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. -- Linus Pauling
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- Omar N. Bradley
Have confidence. Like the first spark of morning light against the entire night sky recognize the Power and Brilliance within you. -- Marrett Green
It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core. -- Thomas Moore
There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance. -- Sally Field
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. -- John Hockenberry
Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. -- Bradley Chicho
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered. -- Charles Saatchi
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant. -- James Sinegal
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character. -- Mel Brooks
I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry. -- Jennifer Hale
When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing. -- John Battelle
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while. -- Pope Francis
Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. -- Steve Vai
My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it. -- Kathy Reichs
If I'm working as an engineer for another band, the responsibility for brilliance pretty much rests on their shoulders. I think I'm pretty good, but I'm not good enough to turn a trout into a sausage, or the other way around. -- Steve Albini
For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless. -- Jackson Katz
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. -- Patricia Sun
I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me. -- Salma Hayek
Experience trumps brilliance. -- Thomas Sowell
Always remember your brilliance. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Surround yourself with brilliance. -- Peter Gabriel
Beauty is the brilliance of truth. -- Saint Augustine
McAvoy's bonkers brilliance will blow you away. -- Peter Travers
Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness. -- Bryant McGill
Let your brilliance be expressed through kindness. -- Bryant McGill
Turmoil in life morphs into brilliance in writing -- Lauren Gano
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane... -- Alexander Pushkin
Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance. -- Court Young
Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future -- Mari Evans
Incredible brilliance often dwells on the razor's edge of madness... -- Brad Thor
In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything. -- Mod Sun
Perform with elan, brilliance and dash - at concert pitch. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
Most brilliance arises from ordinary people working together in extraordinary ways. -- Roger von Oech
A man doesn't need brilliance or genius, all he needs is energy. -- Albert M. Greenfield
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. -- Roald Dahl
The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The brilliance of contemplated beauty opens the spirit to the mystery of God. -- Angelo Sodano
Helping people develop their own brilliance is much more effective than giving them yours -- Garrison Wynn
The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people. -- Voltaire
Unconscious people are spiritually stunted, effectively encasing their unique brilliance in a psychological tumor. -- Bryant McGill
I stared up at the Erlking, and with my typical pithy brilliance said, "Uh-oh. -- Jim Butcher
For every studen with a spark of brilliance, there are about ten with ignition trouble. -- Milton Berle
For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality. -- Gail Levin
There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact. -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning? -- Seth Godin
Evil may mar the divine image and cloud its brilliance, but it cannot destroy it. -- R. C. Sproul
A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility -- Mohamed Mohamed Adel
Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility. -- Alan Cohen
I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. -- Aleister Crowley
Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business. -- Tina Brown
A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there -- Stephen Fry
[Obama is ] creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom . . . [He is] the man for this time. -- Toni Morrison
The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role. -- Rob Thomas
Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. -- Robin Sharma
European languages must not be considered diamonds displayed under a glass ball, dazzling us with their brilliance. -- Cheikh Anta Diop
Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot. -- Ian Brown
Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge. -- Confucius
Now more than ever the world needs your brilliance, your voice, your unique imagination, and your particular genius. -- Gloria Burgess
Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die. -- Roland Barthes
In the middle of my heart, a star appeared, and the seven heavens were lost in its brilliance. -- Rumi
The brilliance of morning is in sharp contrast with the darkness of night" - Woman thou art loosed -- T. D. Jakes
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. -- Jeffrey Eugenides
Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond. -- Patanjali
The true axis of evil in America is the brilliance of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people. -- Bill Maher
I saw "Follies" again at thirty, and you know, I had this great appreciation for [Stephen] Sondheim's brilliance, his lyrics. -- Charles Busch
Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan. -- Orson Scott Card
All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God's brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun. -- Hildegard of Bingen
You are the forward edge of life's advancement; in this moment in time you are the finest expression of life's brilliance. -- Bryant McGill
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance. -- Homer
Whatever that ["transfiguration" by Bob Dylan] means, it's true that the poetic brilliance of the early career would never really reappear. -- Bob Dylan
As is often the case, the sole person not left speechless in awe by my brilliance is my own beloved wife. -- Jack Womack
Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest. -- Margot Asquith
When you are clearly-defined, deliberate with intention and operating at your highest level, your brilliance cannot be hidden, diminished or overshadowed. -- Rhonda Louise Robbins
At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Planning, evaluation, reasoning and establishing prioritites are all more important than brilliance - either behind the wheel or at the drawing board. -- Carroll Smith
Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease. -- Peter Gabriel
It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin. -- Clive Davis
...though the conversation always touched an exceptionally high level of brilliance, there was apt to be a good deal of sugar thrown about. -- P. G. Wodehouse
You have brilliance in you, your contribution is valuable, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do, and you must. -- Seth Godin
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance. -- Robert Kiyosaki
A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder. -- Mary Balogh
Before the beginning of brilliance, there must be great chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd. -- Fuxi
The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies. -- Morihei Ueshiba
Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The ultimate power of a successful general staff lies, not in the brilliance of its individual members, but in the cross-fertilisation of its collective abilities. -- Reg Revans
I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. -- H. P. Lovecraft
The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind. -- Yagyu Jubei Mitsuyoshi
Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection. -- Michelle Obama
You would think with all the genius and the brilliance of these times, we might find a higher purpose and a better use of mind. -- Jackson Browne
I admire some people for their brilliance and I respect others for their strength. But I am indebted to those who can rekindle my spirit. -- Steve Goodier
The poetic image ["¦] is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of any image, the distant past resounds with echoes. -- Gaston Bachelard
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside. -- D. H. Lawrence
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A real leader is not the top dog who merely shouts down orders. a leader is one who holds the space for the brilliance of others. -- Marianne Williamson
There are times, where I am sad for the public. I am sad, because they do not get to know the brilliance that is Sebastian Janikowski. -- Sebastian Janikowski

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