Famous Quotes & Sayings

He played a brilliant game. We were able to at least salvage two points for him. Let's face the facts: If he doesn't play like he does for 40 minutes, we're nowhere near that game. We know it. Everybody knows it.

Jayson Blair

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

Jack Reed

After a brilliant offensive campaign to destroy the Iraqi military forces, we have settled into a very dismal and dangerous occupation.

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

Ewan McGregor

Drama school can't make you a brilliant actor, but you can do stuff for three years - you're not going to be fired. You should just go for it all, even the stuff you think is codswallop.

Dear Vitali, I watched your brilliant bout with interest and expectation,

CNN Productions has done a brilliant job in unveiling many long-standing mysteries surrounding Jesus.

I usually pick them the first week in September, when they're a brilliant orange.

Julie Gonzalo

It would be a dream to do a film with Pedro Almodovar and that whole crew of Spaniards. There's this Argentinian actor who's one of my favorite actors in the whole wide world. His name is Ricardo Darin, and he's a brilliant actor. He does a lot of Argentinian films, and I know he does a lot of European films, as a Spanish actor.

It was an easy transition for me. Much of the park's entertainment is theatrical, which is my training, plus I used to go to theme parks a lot in the US when I was growing up. This is also a chance to work with brilliant people and create new material.

It was a brilliant night, there was a really good vibe.

Gethin Jenkins

At his time at Llanelli, Phil was a brilliant captain and just an immensely likeable guy. Since he's left Stradey, he's done particularly well, including winning the trophy last year.

That was a brilliant shot. He pulled up and blasted it. I want more of that from our guys. We've got to test the keeper from outside.

E. P. Thompson

This guy has become famous for being really, really brilliant and really, really smart about something, but most people have no idea what it is he does.

Jay Rockefeller

a man of character, conviction and kindness ... was a classic American intellectual -- a man with a brilliant and probing mind, yet entirely approachable and pragmatic.

Elizabeth Taylor

Americans are getting so lazy. Now they have to get up and get some form of exercise. The university has made a brilliant move.

Any of the remaining three could win and it will be very interesting to see who the cash comes in for during the week. Personally my money would be on the brilliant Bonnie.

John Cornyn

an exceptional judge, brilliant legal mind, and a man of outstanding character who understands his profound duty to follow the law.

As a manager you're always disappointed to see good players leave but Jon is going to a good club and it really is a brilliant move for him.

Russ Feingold

The Bush administration did a brilliant job, which has continued until today, not in getting us into the war and handling it correctly, but they did a brilliant job of intimidating us into somehow thinking that if we didn't vote for this, we weren't supporting the troops and we were soft on terror,

Mark Burnett

They are brilliant -- including our first-ever MENSA member -- hungry and more international than ever.

Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Michael McFaul

I don't think the Bush administration could have been better served. This was a brilliant performance &#8212 and I say this as a critic of the Bush administration on a lot of things.

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.

Eric Stein was brilliant this whole week and kept us in these games. I am sure he will just get better and better.

Paul Weller

I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it's not for me. I couldn't do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn't make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.

Income-producing unit trusts are brilliant because if you can accept capital values will be volatile for a while, your dividend income will always be higher than what you get in the bank.

James Ward

To me, it is just freedom for my race and just overall cultural freedom for everyone and liberty. Martin Luther King Jr. was just a brilliant man in my eyes. If he was here, I would want to thank him for everything he did for us.

Douglas Adams

Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.

What they didn't realize is that the combination of a warm heart and a brilliant mind has made this man a winner.

We just talked to Thomas, he said he had fully recovered and would play at the weekend with his Saracens club. Thomas made a brilliant comeback in November. He can play at fly-half, centre or full-back - for the time being we think of him as a full-back.

Very key to a good episode is to have something not work, and have our brilliant science team somehow fix it magically in the fifth act.

Douglas Booth

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.