Brilliancy Prize Quotes

#1. You'll never be happy if you're always trying to please other people's idea of what you should be." She

Autumn Jones Lake

#2. Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.

Peggy Toney Horton

#3. I am absolutely blessed and I'm very grateful for where I am today.

Geri Halliwell

#4. All have been or believed themselves to be in danger from the pursuit of one they wished to avoid, while they have been anxious for the attentions of someone they wished to please.

Nancy Butler

#5. Idea 721. Lies always have a purpose; but a truth has no such compulsion! The very purpose of lies is that they have to be told somewhere. Otherwise there arises no necessity to create them. The truth exists as it is; only some confess and others do not.

Thiruman Archunan

#6. When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#7. And up until quite recently, that has held up as the grand bargain of the carbon age: the people reaping the bulk of the benefits of extractivism pretend not to see the costs of that comfort so long as the sacrifice zones are kept safely out of view.

Naomi Klein

#8. We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

Kathleen Blanco

#9. She drifted towards the bedroom, on her way to have a bath or take a nap or start a war.

Maggie Stiefvater

#10. Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

John W. Campbell

#11. Always love your enemies. It will destroy them forever.

Debasish Mridha

#12. Doris Day started performing at a young age, had a tough road to success, and once she achieved it delivered the goods 100 percent and brilliantly, always making difficult work look as easy as breathing.

Robert Osborne