As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.

Jacqueline Woodson

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Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.

My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor's guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: 'Don't enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.' I feel childlike somehow.

Alysia Reiner

Power Life Family

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Ann Landers

Marriage Love Age

To me, that's the brilliance of Michael Jordan. He was an incredible, amazing individual player who matched his talents to the team, matched the team's talents to him, and he lived in the middle of those extremes. I don't know how you do that.

B. J. Armstrong

Amazing You Who

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.

Bradley Chicho

Wept Us Up

By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.

Charles Saatchi

Us Up Undiscovered

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

Chris Riddell

Work Great Worked

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

Cyril Cusack

Ten T Sit

The brilliance of Andrew Breitbart is that he has created thousands of Andrew Breitbarts.

Dana Loesch

Art USA Us

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

Danny Strong

Love Wit Who

Part of the brilliance of Stieg Larsson's books is that they are so complex, so many different facets coming together.

David Lagercrantz

Art Together Tie

For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

Edgar Wright

Art Watching Watch

My mother was very, very beautiful, and I saw that the beautiful women around me were often constrained not only by their beauty but by the way that being an object of male desire frequently caused violence in their lives. And it caused them to be constrained in these terribly sad ways - their brilliance was not valued.

Emil Ferris

Women Sad Men

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Ernest Hemingway

Death Art Anger

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

Hedy Lamarr

Age Where Wear

The brilliance of 'Sharknado 2' is it's more of the same - similar formula, more of the experience.

Ian Ziering

Experience T Similar

I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

J. K. Simmons

Music Art Your

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.

Jackson Katz

Women Men Love

If someone has something they're really passionate about, that's their brilliance, and my big question is how do we grow that passion/brilliance and/or help them grow.

Jacqueline Woodson

Thing Thin Them

As a person of color, as a woman, as a body moving through this particular space in time, I realize the streets of New York tell the story of resistance, an African-American history of brilliance and beauty that, even in its most brutal moments, did not - could not - kill our resilient and powerful spirit.

Jacqueline Woodson

Time Space Power

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

James Sinegal

The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.

James Sinegal

In America, we have a two-party system, and the American Constitution is a piece of brilliance, but they did not know when they set it up we would just have a two-party system. It just so happens that our electorate pushed towards the two-party system because it's a very good way to govern.

Jamie Dimon

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Jane Asher

The gas man came one day, and he said, 'What does your husband do?' so I told him, and he said, 'What's the use of that?' He had a point, but on the other hand, I firmly believed in Stephen and his brilliance. I encouraged him to popularise his science just because the gas man had been so insulting.

Jane Hawking

Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.

Jason Bonham

I've learned that I can still be loved if I perform well, and I learned that from the broken brilliance of Matt Hardy.

Jeff Hardy

The brilliance of Jill Soloway is that while some people will give you Season Two, plus 10%, she's just kicked it.

Jeffrey Tambor

I don't spend a lot of time watching my performances after the fact. I suck at playing video games, but I'm a fan of the creativity, the brilliance, and the possibility of the industry.

Jennifer Hale

There are moments from childhood that attract heat in our memories, some for their sublime brilliance, some for their malignancy. The first time that I was treated differently because of my race is one such memory.

Jesmyn Ward

The great thing about T20 is that it only takes one performance. One piece of individual brilliance can win a game and that can change the whole way you approach a tournament.

Joe Root

When you bring the scale and precision of data-driven platforms to the brilliance of great media executions, magic will happen. Delivering on that vision for the Independent Web is the mission of Federated Media Publishing.

John Battelle

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

John Hockenberry

By creating a context of pressure, I can exact more preciseness, more brilliance. It's just as if coal is subjected to enormous pressure, you can get a diamond.

John J. McLaughlin

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.

John Mortimer

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

Jose Marti

Extreme people combine brilliance and talent with an insane work ethic.

Justine Musk

Every time a confident, successful woman like Marissa Meyer distances herself from feminism, I think of Athena. Athena women, with all their brilliance and strategy, are the ones smashing up through layers of glass. They tend to identify with men, keeping femininity at a distance.

Justine Musk

The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

Karan Mahajan

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.

Kathryn Schulz

My first book was the most successful debut novel in the U.K. ever and every one of my books has reached number one in the U.K. Clearly the British know brilliance when they see it.

Kathy Reichs

Irrespective of its size, Greece, with its intellectual heritage and the brilliance of Hellenism, together with the liveliness of its people, can contribute politically, morally and culturally to the realisation of the idea of a united Europe.

Konstantinos Karamanlis

A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem. But it's common enough to encounter a hodgepodge instead, where flashes of brilliance are undercut by clunkers.

Laura van den Berg

You know that moment in 'The Matrix' when Neo takes the red pill and is plunged into the real world? That's what it felt like when I first read 'Watchmen' - like someone was taking a can opener to my head to make room for Moore's audacious brilliance.

Libba Bray

'Ebony's Power 100 list highlights African-Americans who exemplify brilliance in the fields of entertainment, arts, business and others.

Linda Johnson Rice

Sancho is a player who has everything. He has fantastic speed, great technique, a good eye for his colleagues, and that key pass. Everything he does, he pulls off at high speed at the right moment. For me, he is a perfect player. The ability he has is instinctive, natural. You cannot teach that brilliance.

Lothar Matthaus

The Second Amendment reflects the brilliance of our founders, who knew that no right is guaranteed unless we are willing to fight for it, and I remain committed to fighting for the rights of lawful gun owners as the senator for Alabama.

Luther Strange

Jimmy Fallon and I play regularly at the Bayonne Golf Club in Jersey. He's eighteen holes of fun. Any time we play he has moments of brilliance, but also moments of utter catastrophe.

Mario Batali

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

Matt Hardy

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

Mel Brooks