Author Brian Brown Quotes & Sayings

I don't mind assholes. It's the dork I don't trust. The dork is the one who's trying to be whatever he thinks you want him to be. I trust the asshole cause you know where he's gonna stand. — Matthew McConaughey

Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all. — William Shakespeare

It was easier to deal with Tennyson when he was fighting me; but having him on my side was frightening, because now I didn't know who the enemy was. — Neal Shusterman

Never Be Still unless you're resting. If you're not at rest, you should be taking action. — Brian A. Brown

While God, for the most part, allows this cosmos [creation] to work according to the laws of nature, there is never a time when He is not actively involved in every detail of life. — Charles R. Swindoll

What about the father?" I demanded. "Who is he?"
There was a long hesitation. "I don't think Tara is all-the-way sure."
"She must have some idea."
"Well, she thought she knew, but ... you know Tara. She's not very organized."
"How organized do you have to be to know who you're sleeping with?"
-Ella & Liza — Lisa Kleypas

You can run from the past, but it always catches up with you. — Debbi Mack

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal. — Al Gore

Great is the art of beginning. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person. — Erma Bombeck

I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he had married my mother, whose relations were named Robinson, a very good family in that country, and from whom I was called Robinson Kreutznaer; but, by the usual corruption of words in England, we are now called - nay we call ourselves and write our name - Crusoe; and so my companions always called me. — Daniel Defoe

The individual will to survive is often seen as just that, an individual thing. In fact, it's sort of a gene we all carry and like a network of computers it all contributes in some way to when it's individually needed. — Danny Boyle

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally. — Spike Jonze

Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine. — Peg Bracken

I have tried in my way to be free. — Leonard Cohen

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory. — Billy Joel