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Larry Brilliant Quotes

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

Larry Brilliant

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1944

Topics

Fire Me You Average Anything Noble

I like the way Wiseman builds a story in an unconventional way.

Story Way Unconventional Like Builds

Cremer's 'Nightshade' is a smart blend of romance, action, philosophy, and pagan witchcraft. And, yes, high-schoolers shape-shifting into wolves.

Smart Wolves Action Philosophy Yes

Verbal contracts are about as useful as a fart on a treadmill.

Fart Contracts Useful Treadmill

I think the key to directing a great music video is in making sure the song is great, and if it is, then it becomes really fun.

Matthew Gray Gubler

Music Great Fun Song Think Key

When I was young, I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters: a family, a business and a good name. I was raised to believe in hard work, in faith and family. My dad, Ed Pence, was a combat veteran in Korea.

Work Family Hard Work Good Business

I was never motivated by a contract. I was motivated by being the best. So I just compete against myself every day and push to get better.

Myself Best Day Better Push Never

I like to go for auditions. I enjoy that aspect of this job until I actually need a job, and then that becomes a problem. The worst thing is to build yourself up for a role and not get it, so now I'm just taking every day as it comes and trying not to rely on anything.

Day Job Yourself Problem Enjoy Go

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.

Building Individuality Spirit Mass

I still read romance, and I read suspense. I read them both. And part of it is, I like stories with strong characters, and I like stories where there's closure at the end. And I like stories where there's hope. That's a kind of empowerment. I think romance novels are very empowering, and I think suspense novels are, too.

Hope Strong Think End Empowerment

Sports - especially the NBA - function as a place where American society pretends to discuss and pretends to solve questions and historical agonies that can't possibly be solved within the realm of sports.

Sports Society American Questions

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

Christopher Hampton

Succeed Husband Think You Fail

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

Portia de Rossi

Me Sexuality Like Part Really

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