#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

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

I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#attitude #brilliant #even #hendrix #his

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#attitude #brilliant #else #everything #great

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he? ↗