“There are certainly good examples of incredibly brilliant, beautiful music that has been made commercially available and sold everywhere. But I would say that, for the most part, quantity certainly does not speak well for quality.” WellsDoeHas BeensMadeBeautifulSpeakQualityExampleAvailableBrilliantQuantityGood ExamplesBeautiful Music Author:Ian MacKaye
“Quite often in history action has been the echo of words. An era of talk was followed by an era of events. The new barbarism of the twentieth century is the echo of words bandied about by brilliant speakers and writers in the second half of the nineteenth.” Has BeensActionHalfCenturyEventsBrilliantErasSpeakersEchoesTwentieth CenturyBarbarism Book:The Passionate State of Mind Source: The Passionate State of Mind
“All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.” MayHas BeensBrilliantDeceptionIllustration Author:Wendy Beckett
“My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.” MenHas BeensWarCoursesAbilityHalfWifeImpossibleAchievementOrdinaryEnglandMy WifeBrilliantAidsDevotedOrdinary ManMarry MeBetter Half Author:Winston Churchill
“In fiction, I have been on a Zweig kick. In England over December, I noticed that many British newspapers' year-end recommenders were praising the Pushkin Press for reissuing several works by Stefan Zweig, a brilliant Austrian writer whose work brings to mind that of his compatriot Joseph Roth... these fictions are a treat of prewar European literature” YearsMindHas BeensEndsLiteratureFictionTreatsEnglandPraisePressesBritishBrilliantNewspapersKicksDecemberYear EndPushkin Author:Sylvia Brownrigg
“The pre-scientific age, whatever its deficiencies, had at least offered its members the peace of mind that follows from knowing all man-made achievements to be nothing next to the grandeur of the universe. We, more blessed in our gadgetry but less humble in our outlook, have been left... having no more compelling repository of veneration than our brilliant, precise, blinkered and morally troubling fellow human beings.” MenMindHumansHas BeensMadeAgeUniverseNextLeftHuman BeingsKnowingMembersAchievementFellowsBlessedHumbleBrilliantPeace Of MindCompellingPreciseOutlookGrandeurDeficiencyVeneration Author:Alain de Botton
“The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.” MenWorldFirstsHas BeensAgeAbleMiddleYouthGoes OnBrilliantGreat MenFadesGreyMiddle AgesGlamourFlowering Book:Not Under Forty Source: Not Under Forty