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The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.


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DAN WALDSCHMIDT A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility
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FRANK HERBERT If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull.
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DEDRICK D. L. PITTER I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist!
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SHANE L. KOYCZAN Sheer brilliance needs to be expressed properly.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY How terrible it is to recognize that one’s brilliance rests solely upon the small-mindedness of ot...
SARAH SHUN-LIEN BYNUM Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the bri...
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CURTIS TYRONE JONES Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
JOHN HOCKENBERRY What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic s...
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GARY F EVANS... Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of br...
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CYRIL CUSACK I see You with Your crown, club, discus; and a mass of radiance, difficult to behold, shining all ar...
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G.K. CHESTERTON A tiny bit of brilliance rubs off on you every time you interact with someone brilliant.
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PATRICIA SUN Today allow yourself to radiate the brilliance of you expanding to all you touch!
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RODERICK ROTOL I ask him to step back from what he wants to do, he wants to shoot, and deliver the ball. He did tha...
GERVAIS BARGER What I lack in brilliance, I more than make up for in glitter
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HOMER Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they recei...
JOSE MARTI Society wants you to break free from the capitalist chains and enrich the world with your brilliance...
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Your uniqueness is what will leav...
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ROBERT FROST Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST