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Quotes tagged “Brilliant”

“Originality is the brilliant alchemy of critical thought and creativity.”
— Stanley Hyman, Shirley
Tagged: Originality, original, Creative, Brilliant
“I am brilliant, which has often been misconstrued as mad.”
— Catherine, The Great, Season 1: The Beard
Tagged: Great, Mad, Brilliant
“I don't know why brilliant young women are always punished.”
— Hannah Grose, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Season 1: The Way It Came
Tagged: Brilliant, young, punished
“Yeah, you're brilliant! You're very dedicated. You're gonna make someone really happy one day.”
— Otis Milburn, Sex Education, Season 1: Episode 7
Tagged: Brilliant, Happy, Love, Relationship, Dedicated Love
“Peter Bishop: Let me ask you something. My father — not my favorite — he is without a doubt the most self-absorbed, twisted, abusive, brilliant, myopic son of a bitch on the planet. So, he was a chemist. That much I already know. He worked out of a basement lab in Harvard, doing research for a toothpaste company. I also know that there was an accident at the lab one night, that my father was arrested, beginning the first truly peaceful period in our home. But here's the thing, Olivia: my gut tells me that your friend's life, the one hanging in the balance, not gonna be saved by a tube of toothpaste.

Agent Olivia Dunham: He worked out of Harvard, but not on toothpaste. He was part of a classified U.S. Army experimental program called "Kelvin Genetics". They gave him the resources to do whatever work he wanted, which was primarily in an area called 'fringe science.'

Peter Bishop: When you say 'fringe science,' you mean 'pseudoscience.'

Agent Olivia Dunham: Things like mind control, teleportation, astral projection, invisibility, genetic mutation, reanimation, fertility...

Peter Bishop: Woah. Excuse me for a sec. Reanimation? Really? So you're telling me, what, my father was Dr. Frankenstein?”
— Peter Bishop, Fringe, Season 1: Pilot
Tagged: father, Family, Abusive, Brilliant, Harvard, Toothpaste, Scientist, army, Genetics, Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, Mind Control, Teleportation, genetic, frankenstein
“Having a brilliant idea isn’t as easy as turning on a light. But just as a single bulb can illuminate even the most depressing of rooms, the right idea can shed light on a depressing situation.”
— Lemony Snicket, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Season 1: The Bad Beginning
Tagged: Brilliant, idea, Light, single bulb, depressing, situation, Metaphor Examples
“Now, pull your twisted self together, concentrate and be brilliant.”
— Sharona Fleming, Monk, Season 1: Mr. Monk Meets the Candidate
Tagged: Twisted, pull yourself together, Concentrate, Brilliant
“Windom Earle's mind is like a diamond. It's cold, and hard, and brilliant.”
— Special Agent Dale Cooper, Twin Peaks, Season 2: Double Play
Tagged: Diamonds, Brilliant, Cold And Hard
“Bob: [practicing] 'As you know, sir, we have several loans with your institution, all 'past due.' But what does 'past due' even mean, you know?


Gene: It's brilliant! There's no such thing as time!


Linda: Gene was past due, and he came out fine.”
— Bob Belcher, Bob's Burgers, Season 2: Bob Day Afternoon
Tagged: Loan Officers, Past Due, Brilliant
“Ellen Piccolo: You're brilliant, you know that. And a coward. You're a brilliant coward.

Gabriel: You do not know my family. What you guys call the apocalypse, I used to call Sunday dinner!”
— Dr. Ellen Piccolo, Supernatural, Season 5: Changing Channels
Tagged: Brilliant, coward, Apocalypse
“It's time for you folks to sharpen your pencils, and you better come back with one Traci Lords of an idea. And if you need that fucking defined, here it is: a barely legal, market-dominating, brilliant cocksucker of an idea.”
— Mike "Wags" Wagner, Billions, Billions Season 2: Risk Management
Tagged: Traci Lords, Ideas, Cocksucker, Brilliant
“Your producer, who you say idolizes me, is obviously a brilliant fellow.”
— Groucho Marx, The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx
Tagged: Ego, Irony, Idols, Brilliant
“Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.”
— Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game (The Ender Quintet)
Tagged: humanity, Happiness, Demand, Brilliant, Intelligence
“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”
— Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes: A Novel (P.S.)
Tagged: Life, Waiting, Crisis, Revealing, Brilliant
“Oh, screw beautiful. I'm brilliant. If you want to appease me, compliment my brain.”
— Dr. Cristina Yang, Grey's Anatomy, Season 7: This is How We Do it
Tagged: Beautiful, Brilliant, compliments, Brain
“I invited Mozart to dinner 
on condition he didn’t embarrass me. 
In the middle of the meal 
he began weeping uncontrollably. 
“You silly fuck,” I screamed, 
“what are you doing in this century 
if you can’t take it?”
— Greogry Orr, The Dinner
Tagged: Mozart, Dinner, Brilliant, Sensitivity

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