“When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be brilliant, no matter how brilliant you may think you are.”
Source: Your Forces and How to Use Them (1912), Chapter 7, p. 114
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“Where you see yourself as brilliant”
Lunatic. 5
पागल (The Lunatic)
Context: I called the Navab's wine blood, the painted whore a corpse, and the king a pauper. I attacked Alexander with insults, and denounced the so-called great souls. The lowly I have raised on the bridge of praise to the seventh heaven. Your learned pandit is my great fool, your heaven my hell, your gold my iron, friend! Your piety my sin. Where you see yourself as brilliant I find you a dolt. Your rise, friend-my decline. That's the way our values are mixed up, friend! Your whole world is a hair to me. Oh yes, friend, I'm moonstruck through and through- moonstruck! That's just the way I am.
“Until you actually start making something, your brilliant idea is just that, an idea.”
Source: Rework

Didier Drogba's exquisite goal against Manchester City at Stamford Bridge in October 2007.
“Yes! Brilliant save from Solo, brilliant save!”
Brazil v. United States http://www.listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=r1PlC9mj-N0 (10 July 2011).
2010s, 2011, 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup
Context: Daiane, whose own goal started all the talking points today after seventy-four seconds. Seems a long, long time ago now. It was into this goal, now Brazil need her to put one in legitimately for them. Yes! Brilliant save from Solo, brilliant save! And that one is legal, and now that means, that if the United States put in the last two penalties, they will go into the semi-finals. That is a moment of magic from Hope Solo!

“Raven muttered, “You don’t have to be brilliant to be a god.””
Source: The Silver Spike (1989), Chapter 42 (p. 580)

“It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.”
Source: High Fidelity
“Allahpundit says Stephen Colbert bombed. (Angry lefties think he was brilliant, of course.)”
Sunday, April 30, 2006 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=20321_White_House_Correspondents_Dinner&only

“If you get Dravid, great. If you get Sachin, brilliant. If you get Laxman, it’s a miracle.”
Brett Lee repeats the words of wisdom of his former captain, Steve Waugh (27 Sep 2004).
Source: http://cricket.yahoo.com/photos/if-you-get-laxman-it-s-a-miracle-slideshow/cricket-odi-australia-v-india-photo-1345279924.html

“It's a brilliant metaphor. What I meant to say was, when you see a monkey masturbating at the zoo…”
C-SPAN interview, October 14, 2004, when asked about the above quote.