Brakmarian Quotes & Sayings

I can become you for a second and you can become me and this lifts us up. — Meryl Streep

If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no! — Rick Riordan

To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country. — George Washington

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it. — Paloma Faith

It's not food if it's called by the same name in every language. (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles.) . — Michael Pollan

I used to be the kind of person who needed to have a lot of people around. That's where I found my serenity. I needed to have everyone around so I could have my hands and my mind in different places because that's what would calm me down. But now, I just want to be by myself. It's a good but scary place to be. — Jessica Simpson

We can never possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time. — Carl Sandburg

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse. — Warren Buffett

Sacred soul radiates inner light. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why are we still talking?" She reached for the bottom of her shirt and pulled it over her head, tossing it aside in the hallway. — T.J. Kline

Ack! Parables. I hate parables. — Christopher Moore

The biggest mistake I made is the one that most of us make while doing this. I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of the three on them sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages 6, 4, and 1. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in a hurry to get on to the next things: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less. — Anna Quindlen

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. — Walt Disney Company

instead of simply saying, "A rabbi, a priest, and a black guy walk into a bar," he'd say, "The subjects of this joke are three males, two of whom are clergymen, one of the Jewish faith, the other an ordained Catholic minister. The religion of the African-American respondent is undetermined, as is his educational level. The setting for the joke is a licensed establishment where alcohol is served. No, wait. It's a plane. I — Paul Beatty

She had a face so
charming that visitors of all ages and both sexes would stand stockstill at the sight of her,
unable to pull their eyes away, practically licking that face with their eyes, the way
tongues work at ice cream, with that typically stupid, single
minded expression on their
faces that goes with concentrated licking — Patrick Suskind