Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's a brilliant financial engineer, ... His record is always the same: cut costs, sell assets. That's terrific, only that's no way to run a retail business.

He's a brilliant person, but did not have extensive executive experience

Ian Holloway

He's always had a short fuse and I was going to try and cure him. He's slightly damaged goods, but I think he could be brilliant if I sort him out.

He's been playing brilliant lately. He's just going to keep getting better the more he plays in goal.

Cynthia Payne

I wrote to Tim Rice about making a musical about an English madam. He wrote back and said that he thought it was a brilliant idea, but he's too busy.

Jim was a brilliant man who brought tremendous leadership, energy and passion to his job. He made an indelible mark on McDonald's system.

I think Iowa has lost a visionary -- a brilliant mind -- a gregarious, friendly guy - a great Democrat. I think it's a tremendous loss for Iowa.

Jon Kyl

He speaks with such economy of words. It is the mark of a really brilliant person who is so clear in his thinking, so precise in his thinking that he can communicate very complex thoughts in just a few well-chosen words,

He was a humble man and he was a brilliant man. And he shared his talent freely with the community.

He was a brilliant 2-year-old in my opinion. He's a bigger-looking colt, and he's done better at 3. He's filled out more and he's gotten taller.

Margot Asquith

He has a brilliant mind until he makes it up.

He is a brilliant demagogue. But it is not working now. He knows that he's in trouble.

He had a beautiful, brilliant smile that you were always left with.

Bruno Heller

(He) must have been a very strange and brilliant man. He ... created a new way of operating a society that lasted for another 500 years.

I don't ever remember making a call in a game that ever won a game for us. I've lost a few for us, but I don't think I've ever won a game by any brilliant maneuver.

Romola Garai

I'd always try to get a C, maybe a B. Other girls would trot off a brilliant essay and go off to Oxford; I'd think: 'Where is the justice?' I took A-levels in English, history and theatre studies and got three Bs.

For such a heavily marked rider it was a brilliant escape. It was like escaping from Alcatraz.

Rory Bremner

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it.

When you think of Tony, you think back to all that he's had to overcome in terms of injuries. What he's meant our team this year has really hard to calculate; he's been invaluable to us. Only now that we've seen how brilliant he has been you can't help but wonder what he could have meant to our team last year. In retrospect, we can now connect the dots and see what Julius was talking about when he could only practice with us that year.

Laura Carmichael

I've been really lucky because I've managed to become wonderful friends with a handful of very talented British designers. Christopher Kane has become one of my very good friends - also Erdem. Jonathan Saunders is another brilliant talent who's very kind. We all hang out.

There is no question that their execution has been less than brilliant over the last 12 months. Our business does rely on Microsoft's digital rights management software and our business model also relies on Microsoft's ecosystem of device manufacturers.

Neve McIntosh

I can't wait to work with Peter Capaldi as the next 'Doctor.' I know him from old; he's such a lovely man and will be brilliant in the role. As long as he tones down the Malcolm Tucker swearing.

Tom was a brilliant chairman who raised thousands of pounds for the association and I am sure Mitchell will also do a great job.

John Terry

What a great performance. We got a brilliant start. In the second half we pressed them and they didn't like it. We got our reward in the end.

Pat Robertson

We've got John Roberts, a brilliant man. We've got Antonin Scalia ( search ), a brilliant judge. And now with this new selection ... he's a brilliant judge. The conservatives are going to have intellectual firepower that's going to last for decades.

Bill Gross

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin was good.

Mark Cuban

With Nellie, we tried it the other way. Nellie was brilliant for what he did, but for whatever reason, it didn't work. All of our guys want to win a championship, and this is a system they understand and buy into. We've got guys who might not be great defenders, but they work hard at that end. Now, we're more geared to play defense.

We're just not quite sure how it's going to turn out. Under pressure you can either produce something brilliant or crap. It's that creativity crammed into such a short time that makes it interesting.

Erich Bergen

I love working in television, and I've been thrilled to be a part of so many wonderful shows. I worked with Lady Gaga on 'Gossip Girl,' and the brilliant Felicity Huffman on 'Desperate Housewives,' but I think my favorite TV job so far was the pilot I shot for the CW Network this year called 'Joey Dakota.'

We've run into a team that is extremely well prepared and very capable. This isn't so much a fact that we're not any good, it's more about the fact that, hey, they're pretty brilliant right now. This is good stuff that they're doing.

Kevin Brownlow

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.

Viktor Khristenko

The facility is brilliant for Russian infrastructure in terms of all parameters.

Robert Earnshaw

The real hero was Paul Gallacher in goal. He put in a great performance on Saturday and another great performance today. He kept us in the game and at 2-1 down made an unbelievable save which kept us in it. It was brilliant for him.