Brilliant Author Quotes

#1. A theory not only explains the world we see, it lets us imagine other worlds, and, even more significantly, lets us act to create those worlds. Developing everyday theories, like scientific theories, has allowed human beings to change the world.

Alison Gopnik

#2. If a story seems too random, or perhaps too brilliant, for a "madman" to have conceived of it himself, then consider that the "author" might be reality and the "madman" just the reader. After all, only reality can escape the limits of our imagination.

Rivka Galchen

#3. People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

Martin Wolf

#4. They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#5. Some questions had no right answers, only shades of wrong, and people couldn't live in black-and-white. Sometimes there were pops of glorious color, and on other occasions, gray was the only visible hue.

Ann Aguirre

#6. Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

Paul Samuelson

#7. If one person has loved another truly and wholly, then it is more than love that collapses when one side of the indissoluble partnership turns away with a tearful goodbye.

Doris Lessing

#8. Have you ever seen a chess article without a brilliant example of the author's own play? 'Silly question,' you will say. Quite.

Yuri Razuvaev

#9. Sometimes just looking into a person's eyes can tell a graphic story and a brilliant novel if you have the ability to turn it into words.

L.L. Caulton

#10. Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself.

Paul Strathern

#11. My life as an author has always been about brilliant, odd people.

David Lagercrantz

#12. Even in a bad market, location, location, location is a way to still buy and sell property.

Vanilla Ice

#13. Do not say you do not have education or abilities

Sunday Adelaja

#14. Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.

A.M. Sawyer

#15. Men. < ... > They're idiots. It's like they all take a vow of stupidity or something.

Cindy Gerard

#16. Most lay-ups and two foot jump shots around the goal are missed by not putting the ball up high enough on the backboard

Rick Majerus

#17. The Backstreet Boys can sing their asses off. I'm not so sure about those other boy bands. But Backstreet Boys have my ultimate respect.

Elton John

#18. There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it ... others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Carl Henegan

#19. The standard God has for you has nothing to do with approval, and everything to do with purpose.

Steven Furtick

#20. I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.

Emma Bunton

#21. A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

Seth Godin

#22. And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

Chuck Klosterman

#23. But they were her parents! Putting up with all of her crap was their official job - they couldn't wriggle out of it! She tried to swallow the lump forming in her throat. How could they do this to her?

Gina Damico

#24. Well, you seem to have embraced Union propaganda wholeheartedly, Sonmi-451.
And I might observe that you have embraced corpocracy propaganda wholeheartedly, Archivist.

David Mitchell