Brainsell Sage Quotes & Sayings

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt! — Zora Neale Hurston

Mrs. Roberts, you remember when Mr. Roberts was out of town and you had me over? The thing we did with the pie? Who would have thought I could eat a whole pie, but then again who would have thought you could hold an entire pie down, well, down there? — Alex Morgan

...she lives for God imagining that she lives for men..One good deed - a cup of water given without the thought of reward - is worth more than any benefit I imagined I was bestowing on people. ..My share of sincere desire to serve God was there, but it was all soiled and overgrown by desire for human praise.. — Leo Tolstoy

A mathematician ... has no material to work with but ideas, and so his patterns are likely to last longer, since ideas wear less with time than words. — G.H. Hardy

In deploring spin while also desiring it, Barack Obama is like the rest of us. We denounce spin when we see it as misleading. But we embrace spin when we see it as leading. — David Greenberg

I consider social skills a bit like learning a language. I've been practising it for so long over so many years I've almost lost my accent. — Daniel Tammet

Next time a sunrise steals
your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way.
Say nothing and listen as Heaven
whispers, Do you like it?
I did it just for you. — Max Lucado

Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style is nearly as much a part of him as his physiognomy, his figure, the throbbing of this pulse,
in short, as any part of his being is at least subjected to the action of the will. — Isaac D'Israeli

Regardless of your age or station in life, it all comes down to one simple truth: you just have to start. — Jon Acuff

Halsted called this procedure the "radical mastectomy," using the word radical in the original Latin sense to mean "root"; he was uprooting cancer from its very source. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

I don't care. They can think what they want."
"Since when? What happened to the nervous, mysterious, guarded Abby I know and love?"
"She died from the stress of all the rumors and assumptions. — Jamie McGuire