#brilliant

I was fortunate enough to work under directors who were, most of them, brilliant, emotional men. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#directors #emotional #enough #fortunate #i

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be British and if we have done our bit to promote Britain in a historic year for the country that's brilliant. ↗

— Louis Tomlinson

#bit #brilliant #britain #british #compare

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#aged #any #brilliant #business #death

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#been #blessed #brilliant #debt #directions

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#brightly #brilliant #burn #burns #end

With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#brilliant #conclude #evidence #history #lot

Nasser Hussain is brilliant. I am very impressed with him. With no disrespect to the current players, he has had to work with material which is not of the highest quality. ↗

— David Gower

#brilliant #current #disrespect #had #highest

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic. ↗

— Mariel Hemingway

#brilliant #charismatic #different #different kind #entirely

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#continually #disguised #faced #great #insoluble

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#brilliant #completely #even #everybody #i