Artists need support, time and money to develop their ideas, and if people rip stuff off, you don't have to be that brilliant to figure out that you're ultimately going to affect the end product.
Every spoof gives more power to the original.
How describe the delicate thing that happens when a brilliant insect alights on a flower? Words, with their weight, fall upon the picture like birds of prey.
It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.
It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century. . . He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd.
Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
In a way, I think Roxy Music is high camp, in a brilliant way.
You need 10,000 hours to figure out how to be good at something and I agree with that to a certain extent. It's like everything you do to lead up to a great recording or great performance is everything you've done in the past and you can't just, it's rare that someone wakes up in a void and goes and wakes up and makes the most brilliant recording or performance.
Stephen Colbert's recent comment is apropos: When the Republican legislature of North Carolina responded to a scientific study predicting a threatening rise in sea level by barring state and local agencies from developing regulations or planning documents to address the problem, Colbert responded: "This is a brilliant solution. If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal. Problem solved. "
I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.
Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.
I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.
The French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifference.
Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper
Hemingway himself and Hemingway's writing were both brilliant, brilliant cocktails.
I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.
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.
There are more hackers breeding every day, and more brilliant minds are turning into hackers. Security has advanced, but so have hackers.
The stunt guys are absolutely brilliant, but all this stuff [a scene] always looks better when you do it yourself.