Quotes About Brilliant

“Nothing is more creative… nor destructive… than a brilliant mind with a purpose.”
― Dan Brown, Inferno

“I love sleepwalking, because when else would I get to combine exercise and rest?”
― Jarod Kintz, The Merits of Marthaism, and How Being Named Susan Can Benefit You

“My brain is divided into two butterflies, and both are in love with your rose-shaped heart. If you’ve got the garden, I’ve got my whole life.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

“Let us embrace each other like we have the arms of two chairs. Let us dance like our legs are those of a table. We should do dinner sometime.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

“Anything disguised as anything is chameleon. A ghost disguised as an unobservable and invisible object is a great example. Still, that’s easier to see than the love my ex wife had for me.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

“I used the boos, and not the booze, as motivation. That led to applause, which I drank up like an alcoholic. I need a refill.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE

“The heart is stubborn. It holds onto love despite what sense and emotion tells it. And it is often, in the battle of those three, the most brilliant of all.”
― Alessandra Torre

“Love is friendship…just with less clothes, which makes it far more brilliant.”
― Elizabeth Hunter, A Hidden Fire

“How many seconds does it take to win second? As many as it takes to win first—if you don’t use them properly.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

“Backing yourself into a corner is a terrible strategy, in that it leaves you nowhere to run. But it’s brilliant in that it brings out the fierce in you, because you are forced to fight.
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― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense

“It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“Before Turner there was no fog in London.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A brilliant idea is like a baby in a mothers womb.
You need to bring it out in the world, nurture it, feed it, grow it, till it becomes big enough to take care of itself.
If you leave it at the stage of an idea itself, it is as good as non existent.”
― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

“You deicde, and you make our night what you want. Brilliant and ours. Stupid and theirs.”
― Arthur Phillips, The Tragedy of Arthur

“All of us, at some point in life, get brilliant ideas…only a few of us have the courage to take the next step.”
― Manoj Arora, From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom

“Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.”
― Diane Ravitch

“Asking where memory is “located” in the brain is like asking where running is located in the body. There are certainly parts of the body that are more important (the legs) or less important (the little fingers) in performing the task of running but, in the end, it is an activity that requires complex coordination among a great many body parts and muscle groups. To extend the analogy, looking for differences between memory systems is like looking for differences between running and walking. There certainly are many differences, but the main difference is that running requires more coordination among the different body parts and can be disrupted by small things (such as a corn on the toe) that may not interfere with walking at all. Are we to conclude, then, that running is located in the corn on your toe?”
― Ian Neath

“It is not what they say, but the reaction that tells you everything you need to know.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Let’s all roll up our sleeves and get back to work. Or let’s create jobs where other people roll up other people’s sleeves, so these other people can get to work helping other people get to work. That’s brilliant. I should be a politician.”
― Jarod Kintz, 99 Cents For Some Nonsense

“Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,
And fathers live transmitted in their sons;
Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds,
The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong successive buds decay,
And insect-shoals successive pass away,
Increasing wants the pregnant parent vex
With the fond wish to form a softer sex. ..”
― Erasmus Darwin, The Temple Of Nature

“If two heads are better than one, then think how brilliant committees must be.”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You’re Gone, I’m Here For You

“[Free trade agreements] are trade agreements that don’t stick to trade…they colonize environmental labor, and consumer issues of grave concern (in terms of health safety, and livelihoods too) to many, many hundreds of millions of people – and they do that by subordinating consumer, environmental, and labor issues to the imperatives and the supremacy of international commerce.

That is exactly the reverse of how democratic societies have progressed, because over the decades they’ve progressed by subordinating the profiteering priorities of companies to, say, higher environmental health standards; abolition of child labor; the right of workers to have fair worker standards…and it’s this subordination of these three major categories that affect people’s lives, labor, environment, the consumer, to the supremacy and domination of trade; where instead of trade getting on its knees and showing that it doesn’t harm consumers – it doesn’t deprive the important pharmaceuticals because of drug company monopolies, it doesn’t damage the air and water and soil and food (environmentally), and it doesn’t lacerate the rights of workers – no, it’s just the opposite: it’s workers and consumers and environments that have to kneel before this giant pedestal of commercial trade and prove that they are not, in a whole variety of ways, impeding international commerce…so this is the road to dictatorial devolution of democratic societies: because these trade agreements have the force of law, they’ve got enforcement teeth, and they bypass national courts, national regulatory agencies, in ways that really reflect a massive, silent, mega-corporate coup d’etat…that was pulled off in the mid-1990’s.”
― Ralph Nader

“We’re authors, too,” Donegan said, “and we’ve been trying to get into the picture-book market. We have this idea for a Where’s Wally type thing, except in ours, you’d have to find the one living person hiding in among all the dismembered corpses while the chainsaw-wielding killer hunts him down. You know, for kids.”
“We’re going to call is Save the Survivor,” Gracious said.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men

“That’s,” I say. My words are all tangled up. “That’s. Insane. You’re insane.”
“I prefer the term brilliant.”
― Eva Morgan, Locked

“He looked at Ghastly. “Thoughts?”
“I want to kill Sanguine,” was the first thing Ghastly said. “And I want to do it slowly, in front of a lot of people. Using a hammer.”
Skulduggery nodded. “Very healthy.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men

“Over recent years, [there’s been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to tests and the test determines what happens to the child, and what happens to the teacher…that’s guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process: it means the teacher cannot be creative, imaginative, pay attention to individual students’ needs, that a student can’t pursue things […] and the teacher’s future depends on it as well as the students’…the people who are sitting in the offices, the bureaucrats designing this – they’re not evil people, but they’re working within a system of ideology and doctrines, which turns what they’re doing into something extremely harmful […] the assessment itself is completely artificial; it’s not ranking teachers in accordance with their ability to help develop children who reach their potential, explore their creative interests and so on […] you’re getting some kind of a ‘rank,’ but it’s a ‘rank’ that’s mostly meaningless, and the very ranking itself is harmful. It’s turning us into individuals who devote our lives to achieving a rank, not into doing things that are valuable and important.

It’s highly destructive…in, say, elementary education, you’re training kids this way […] I can see it with my own children: when my own kids were in elementary school (at what’s called a good school, a good-quality suburban school), by the time they were in third grade, they were dividing up their friends into ‘dumb’ and ‘smart.’ You had ‘dumb’ if you were lower-tracked, and ‘smart’ if you were upper-tracked […] it’s just extremely harmful and has nothing to do with education. Education is developing your own potential and creativity. Maybe you’re not going to do well in school, and you’ll do great in art; that’s fine. It’s another way to live a fulfilling and wonderful life, and one that’s significant for other people as well as yourself. The whole idea is wrong in itself; it’s creating something that’s called ‘economic man’: the ‘economic man’ is somebody who rationally calculates how to improve his/her own status, and status means (basically) wealth. So you rationally calculate what kind of choices you should make to increase your wealth – don’t pay attention to anything else – or maybe maximize the amount of goods you have. What kind of a human being is that? All of these mechanisms like testing, assessing, evaluating, measuring…they force people to develop those characteristics. The ones who don’t do it are considered, maybe, ‘behavioral problems’ or some other deviance […] these ideas and concepts have consequences. And it’s not just that they’re ideas, there are huge industries devoted to trying to instill them…the public relations industry, advertising, marketing, and so on. It’s a huge industry, and it’s a propaganda industry. It’s a propaganda industry designed to create a certain type of human being: the one who can maximize consumption and can disregard his actions on others. It’s massive and it starts with infants.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Portia followed after, a smirk on her face, and Syc hissed as he passed.
Donegan waited till they were gone, then swung round to Gracious.
“He hissed at me.”
“He hissed at you.”
“Should I hiss back?”
“It’s a bit late.”
“He could still hear.”
“Not unless you run after him.”
“Do you think I should?”
“Probably not.”
“I think I should.”
“It’d be a bit weird.”
“You might be right.” Donegan pursed his lips, then shook his fist at the doorway.
“That showed him,” said Gracious.
Donegan nodded. “He’ll think twice about hissing at me again.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men

“The door handle turned. Someone knocked, and a man’s voice called, “Uh, hello?”
Valkyrie looked at Skulduggery, looked back at the others, looked at Skulduggery again.
“Hello,” Skulduggery said, speaking loudly to be heard over the alarm.
“Hi,” said the man. “The door’s locked.”
“Is it?”
“Yes.”
“That’s funny” said Skulduggery. “Hold on a moment.” He reached out, jiggled the handle a few times, then stepped back. “Yes, it’s locked. You wouldn’t happen to have the key, would you?”
There was a delay in response from the other side. “I’m sorry,” the man called, “Who am I speaking with?”
Skulduggery tilted his head. “Who am I speaking with?”
“This is Oscar Nightfall.”
“Are you sure?”
“What?”
“Are you sure you are who you say you are? This is the Great Chamber, after all. It’s a very important place for very important people. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that someone, and I’m not saying that this applies to you in particular, but someone could conceivably lie about who they are in order to gain access to this room. I have to be vigilant, especially now. There’s a war on, you know.”
Oscar Nightfall sounded puzzled. Who are you?”
“Me? I’m nobody. I’m a cleaner. I’m one of the cleaners. I was cleaning the thrones and the door shut behind me. Now I can’t get out. Could you try and find a key?”
“What’s your name? Give me you name.”
“No. It’s mine.”
“Tell me your name!”
“My name is Oscar Nightfall.”
“What? No it isn’t. That’s my name.”
“Is it? Since when?”
“Since I took it!”
“You didn’t ask me if you could take it. I was using it first.”
“Open this door immediately.”
“I don’t have the key.”
“I’ll fetch the Cleavers.”
“I found the key. It was in the keyhole. It’s always the last place you look isn’t it? I’m unlocking the door now. Here we go.”
Skulduggery relaxed the air pressure, opened the door, and pulled Oscar Nightfall inside. Valkyrie stuck out her foot, and Oscar stumbled over it and Vex shoved him to Ghastly and Ghastly punched him. Oscar fell down and didn’t get up again. Skulduggery closed the door once more.”
― Derek Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant: Last Stand of Dead Men

“If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.”
― Sophie Hannah, The Orphan Choir

“Vincent had ten major ideas every week: three brilliant, five good, and two ridiculous.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly