Quotes About Bravura

#1. In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.

Frank Herbert

#3. Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

Gail Sheehy

#4. I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.

Anton Chekhov

#5. The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless.

James Berardinelli

#6. The casting of 'Slumdog Millionaire' is a dream. Anil Kapoor, as the sleazy TV host, diamonds winking in his earlobes, has never been better; the quietly understated Irrfan Khan turns in another bravura performance as the police inspector whose questioning brings out Jamal's story.

Shashi Tharoor

#7. Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

Kevin McKenzie

#8. If you don't have some self doubts and fears when you pursue a dream, then you haven't dreamed big enough.

Joe Vitale

#9. Americans tend to believe they can do anything with or without any training or experience.

Gladys Taber

#10. I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

John Polkinghorne

#11. I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

Jim Davis

#12. Wise man is a lake full with fishes; clever man is a fisherman who often visits this lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan