Brillantly Quotes

#1. She ... can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

Oscar Wilde

#2. An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#3. I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around.
I feel so wanted. Thanks.

Rick Riordan

#4. The famous University of Chicago Great Books program and the reorganization of the University structure along Aristotelian lines and the establishment of the "College," in which a reading of classics was initiated in fifteen-year-old students, were some of the results.

Robert M. Pirsig

#5. Tom shut his eyes again, because when his eyes were shut, he could tell himself that there was light.

N.D. Wilson

#6. Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.

Peter Singer

#7. This paper was one of my digressions into abstract economics.

William Vickrey

#8. I highlight everything I find interesting, and then type out everything I've highlighted, and then print out everything I've typed, and reread these printed notes as often as possible.

Eleanor Catton

#9. I fancy you, he whispered. I fancy you a whole lot.

Mia Sheridan

#10. Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go ... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

Peter Zumthor

#11. The times grow ever more interesting, my sweet, and when the times are interesting you can never have too many swords.

George R R Martin