This collection holds 78 brilliantly quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Yotam Ottolenghi, Karl Pilkington and Walter Lord.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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Halva works brilliantly in ice-cream.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

It's an amazingly daunting prospect to play any part you've seen someone else play brilliantly.

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

A lot of the films I do go down brilliantly critically and win awards, but not a lot of people see them.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

I think with 'Modern Family,' you'll struggle to find anything better. It's brilliantly, brilliantly written.

To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Neil Etheridge in goal and Nathaniel Mendez-Laing, they've both come from lower league clubs and done brilliantly.

Alisson is a top-class goalkeeper, from what I've seen. He performed brilliantly for Roma, and for Brazil as well.

There's drag queens who lip sync brilliantly. There's drag queens who sing live brilliantly - none of those are me.

My infrastructure must run brilliantly. My whole system must be different from what you can get anywhere else in Asia.

The Time It Takes' is one of the most brilliantly daft shows I've ever been involved in - and that's saying something.

I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.

There's a bit of a Bertie Wooster about my father. He's very easy-going, he never judges people, and we get on brilliantly.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

White Lines' is without a doubt one of the best, most imaginative, brilliantly bonkers scripts I've ever had a chance to work on.

I think that everyone would agree that something that Marvel has done brilliantly is weave comedy into all of their action movies.

'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.

'The Color Purple' is the kind of character piece that a director like Sidney Lumet could do brilliantly with one hand tied behind his back.

It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

Leave your ego at the door every morning, and just do some truly great work. Few things will make you feel better than a job brilliantly done.

A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right vocal cords - brilliantly and shatteringly conveyed.

On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'

He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have said, they are cartoons, caricatures. They're grotesques really.

Once Liverpool go ahead, they are dangerous because it becomes hard to find space to break them down, especially if you are not playing all that brilliantly.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.

The one thing that makes 'Torchwood' work so brilliantly and makes it a little bit above the rest of all other sci-fi dramas out there is that we have a sense of humour.

I think I am typical in believing that the Peace Corps trained us brilliantly and then did little more except send us into the bush. It was not a bad way of running things.

I don't chase the perfect figure. I'd rather focus on staying and eating healthy. A combination of running, swimming, yoga and circuit training works brilliantly for my body.

I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

For a long time, I was brilliantly achieving drawings that were inert, suffocating and dark. If ever you need illustrations that are inert, suffocating and dark, I know how to do them.

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

A lot of the city boys in London, a lot of the hedge-fund, young city workers at the height of the financial boom were a lot of working-class, brilliantly minded young fellows and women.

I love zombie films like Danny Boyle's '28 Days Later' - I thought it was so brilliantly done and so grounded in reality. I was definitely thrust into the zombie world watching that film.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away from that stuff. But, you know - but to write exposition brilliantly is hard.

When I took over the Writers' Workshop, it was one little class and there were eight students. All of them, brilliantly untalented... I had an absolute vision after the first workshop meeting.

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