Brilliant Quotes

[Roberts, President Bush's choice to replace the late William Rehnquist as chief justice of the Supreme Court, is well prepared for the post, Bork said. While praising Roberts for his] brilliant mind... never heard [Roberts] say anything about judicial philosophy. - Robert Bork

[On Blueprint of a Lady Sketches of Billie Holiday, Nnenna captures Holidau's feisty spirit and independence with her selection and interpretation of signature tunes.] Billie Holiday really sang what she had to say in her own way... Thau's one of the things that was so impressive about her; she was a survivor, and had an absolutely brilliant, innovative concept of her own. - Nnenna Freelon

[Microsoft is] trying to turn this into the Cabbage Patch Kids... It's brilliant marketing. - Michael Pachter

[Horton's] courage, his will and the way he put us on his back offensively was a brilliant, brilliant game for us. - Tommy Amaker

[He] is salt rubbed in the wounds of the nation's conscience. He is a scream of pain. He is an accusing finger thrust in the face of white America. He is a fierce, brilliant light illuminating the unspeakable and the shameful. - Fern Marja Eckman

[Did working with Peter match up to his expectations?] He's everything you think he's going to be... He's the funny, brilliant, cranky, crabby Peter Falk. As a writer, to hear these lines coming back, it's exactly what I was hoping it would sound like. You really do sound like Peter Falk! As an actor, it's like playtime, because he's so fast and facile and good. - Paul Reiser

[And yet talk to Hollywood and the establishment that should be crushing him seems in awe instead:] He's obviously a very brilliant guy... have some revolutionary ideas and interesting concepts and we have been talking with them. - Dan Glickman

[And the imperfect House -- a brilliant but troubled diagnostician -- is an ideal character through which to channel these stories.] He's certainly a character who's dramatically very, very rich, ... physicians often feel pulled in a hundred different ways. - David Foster

(It's about) human beings, our decision-making process and how emotions affect them. We have some brilliant kids here. - Brian Hickey