#brilliance

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ↗

— Jose Marti

#generate #light #like #men #others

Art has something to do with beauty. The act of creating beauty pulls the portion of your soul to the surface that is true to the way you were created. ↗

— Timothy Simpson

#beauty #boredom-to-brilliance #creative-process #timothy-simpson #art

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

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

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

#brilliance #detecting #fooled #high #i

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

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. ↗

— Cyril Cusack

#generosity #heightened #often #other #performance

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

#brilliance #carefully #concentrates #considered #creature

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero. ↗

— Danny Strong

#action #action hero #ahead #being #brilliance