The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.

The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I’m brilliant

I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well.

Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke’s solo output, however, is brilliant.

There’s always been that theory that if a candidate can’t run a decent campaign, he probably can’t run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing

Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who’s very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson’s administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s brilliant ‘whiz kids’ tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results

Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe

But “love” is the most empty and overused word in the English language after “brilliant.

I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to.

Like I said, when all of that goes away and you just completely lose yourself in the fantasy of it, then that’s usually when I walk out of the theatre or turn off the television and just go: “That was brilliant!”

The last thing I thought that was utterly brilliant was the season finale of the last season of ‘Homeland’. I was just completely and utterly speechless and I think my friend was poking me going: “What did you think?”

When you’re still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant – Gene Hackman is another – at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.

An average person with average talent, ambition, and education can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society if that person has clear, focused goals.

Your producer, who you say idolizes me, is obviously a brilliant fellow.

We know Mourinho can win league titles – he is brilliant at it – but how long can he do it at one club?

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.

Management is not being brilliant. Management is being conscientious.

Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant

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.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.

There’s a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don’t have that chance to shower it.

People ask me, ‘How do you cope with rejection?’… And there are only two ways to do it—one of which is you go down. You get sad. You put the thing away. You stop writing. You go and get a real job, go and do something else. And the other is a kind of crazed attitude that actually the most important thing now is to write something so brilliant, so powerful, so good nobody could ever reject it.

I think if everyone had the luxury to pursue a life of exactly what they love, we would all be ranked as visionaries and brilliant.