#brilliant

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

#feminism #short-story #short-story

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#complete #cosmos #directs #elevates #eternally

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#brilliant #civilization #departed #each #economic

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#brilliant #close #earth #here #horizon

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. ↗

— Richard Bach

#burns #fire #jonathan #little #lives

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. ↗

— Russell Baker

#century #comic #english #english literature #literature

Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent: prowling Vienna in a Burberry trench coat, speaking a dozen languages to dangerous women, narrowly escaping Sardinian bandits - the usual stuff that newspaper dreams are made of. ↗

— Russell Baker

#brilliant #coat #correspondent #dangerous #dozen

I think Sarah Michelle Gellar has done some brilliant work as Buffy. ↗

— Julie Benz

#buffy #done #i #i think #michelle

There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#brilliant #director #emotions #handled #i

Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant. ↗

— Jackie Weaver

#brothers #coen #everything