Brakmar Quotes & Sayings

All of the buildings, all of those cars
Were once just a dream
In somebodys head. — Peter Gabriel

I want to say, and this is very important: at the end we lucked out. It was luck that prevented nuclear war. We came that close to nuclear war at the end. Rational individuals: Kennedy was rational; Khrushchev was rational; Castro was rational. Rational individuals came that close to total destruction of their societies. And that danger exists today. — Robert McNamara

Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do. — David Dreman

The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire ... One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure. — Josef Pieper

The traveler without money will sing before the robber.
[Lat., Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator.] — Juvenal

When I listen back to my music and everyone else that's out there, I'm aware that there's something I can do that the next guy doesn't do. — Jakob Dylan

My lord," catherine asked,her eyes wide, "do you think that has anything to do with the Ramsay curse?"
"Actually, that hadn't occurred to me yet," Leo said, "thank you so much for bringing it to my attention. — Lisa Kleypas