Please don't lie to me,unless,you're sure I'll never find out the truth.
One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.
As a mathematician, von Neumann was quick, brilliant, efficient, and enormously broad in scientific interests beyond mathematics itself. He knew his technical abilities; his virtuosity in following complicated reasoning and his insights were supreme; yet he lacked absolute self confidence.
The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.
[My breasts] had a pretty good career. I’ve basically been tagging along for the ride.
Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.
The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
I am a fan of the compositions of The Beatles, but I don't care for their interpretation of them. But as compositions, I just think that some of them are brilliant and have become standards.
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.
When you’re obsessing about one thing, you can reach insights about how to solve hard problems. If you have too many things to think about, you’ll get to the superficial solution, not the brilliant one.
The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.
The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.
Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.
I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.
Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who've seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.
Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
In a pine tree, A few yards from my window sill, A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and down. On a branch. I laugh, as I see him abandon himself To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do That the branch will not break.
The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.
It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it.
My own work has been influenced by my years of teaching in that it's very hard for me to be cynical. When you're working with emerging, brilliant talent, you have to believe in the future. It makes me hungry, as a 65-year-old. I'm not thinking about the time that is behind me. I'm thinking of these people that I watch to catch up with and be in their company.