#brilliance

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine. ↗

— Robert Bresson

#brilliance #images #into #most #must

The modern habit of saying "This is my opinion, but I may be wrong" is entirely irrational. If I say that it may be wrong, I say that is not my opinion. The modern habit of saying "Every man has a different philosophy; this is my philosophy and it suits me" – the habit of saying this is mere weak-mindedness. A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#opinions #philosophy #relativism #wisdom #religion

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#brilliance #catch #drag #dust #i

I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist! ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#humor #humor

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

#authorities #back #books #brilliance #brooks

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#brilliance #bull #dazzle #them #you

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

#around #beauty #because #brains #brilliance

For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations.... Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#failure #flaws #promise #success #money

Do not let your difficulties fill you with anxiety, after all it is only in the darkest nights that stars shine more brightly. ↗

— Ali Ibn Abi Talib AS

#brilliance #darkness #difficulties #life #life

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

#brilliance #domain #fascinated #inspired #instrument