Bradish Quotes & Sayings

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. — George Bernard Shaw

Transformation is an instant-moment thing, available to us in any and every second. Life starts anew when you say it does. — Neale Donald Walsch

I'm starting to remember that it's okay when things don't turn out right the first time. I can always try again and get it right. — Susan Mallery

There be as many persons of a king, as there be petty constables in his kingdom. And so there are, or else he cannot be obeyed. But I never said that a king, and every one of his persons, are the same substance. — Thomas Hobbes

Every job I was denied for ... opened the door to new opportunities. Every relationship that hurt me ... led me to my true love. Every mistake I thought would be the end of me ... pointed me towards an incredible success. Sometimes when you think you're losing, you're winning. — Steve Maraboli

If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world. — Deborra-Lee Furness

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?' — Erwin Chargaff

But there is this peculiarity about heat: it appears to affect only those that think of it. — R.K. Narayan

Take a trip in my mind
see all that I've seen,
and you'd be called a
beast, not a human being ...
Fuck it, cause there's
not much I can do,
there's no way out, my
screams have no voice no
matter how loud I shout ...
I could be called a
low life, but life ain't
as low as me. I'm
in juvenile hall headed
for the penitentiary.
George Trevino, sixteen, Who Am I? — Edward Humes

Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner. — John Cheever

Was ever grief like mine? — George Herbert

It wasn't a kiss, human, so don't get excited."
She sputtered in outrage. "I don't know what putting your lips on someone else's mouth means for your people - whatever they are - but humans call that a kiss."
"Congratulations, then. You made out with a hellhound. — Larissa Ione

Strictly speaking, it is doubtful that a photograph can help us understand anything. — Susan Sontag

I review books."
"Do you get paid for them?"
I laughed out loud at that. "No, not at all."
Daemon seemed confused by that. "So you review books and you don't get paid if someone buys a book based on your review? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

How very lovely she was, with the muted light of the afternoon falling over her shoulder like a veil! How gorgeously the shadow filled that notch beneath her lip! — Eleanor Catton