Brandesburton Quotes & Sayings

Are you going to argue with me?"
Beatrix tried to sound meek. "No, sir."
A slow smile crossed his face. "That was the worst attempt at obedience I've ever seen. — Lisa Kleypas

Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book "America by Heart" from being leaked, but US Govt can't stop Wikileaks' treasonous act? — Sarah Palin

But for now, if you are intentional and willing to appreciate the fact that you don't see the whole narrative, you can enjoy more of the journey. — Jeff Goins

I loved 'Space Ghost' when I was in college. — Eric Andre

I've never been thrown out of a pub, but I've fallen into quite a few — Benny Bellamacina

Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying capacity of memory to transform horror into courage, a voyage that she could easily mention. Any way of seeing the world is good, as long as one returns. — Nicolas Bouvier

I wish you'd stay forever, I think. I wish that I would not wish so often. — Carrie Anne Noble

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo. — Derek Bailey

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes? — Nicholas Stern

I'm not just going to go back to my bedroom, get a job and 'get real with myself' - come on. I'm already too old, and I'm lucky to have a job at all. — Ariel Pink

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before. — Kent Haruf

How can you fully open your heart to someone new, when in fact...what you really need is closure from your past. — Norman Bridwell

I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too. — W.E.B. Du Bois

On the face of it, these look like bad times for Labour and for Ed Miliband's leadership. There seems to be no strategy, no narrative and little energy. Old faces from the Brown era still dominate the shadow cabinet and they seem stuck in defending Labour's record in all the wrong ways: we didn't spend too much money, we'll cut less fast and less far, but we can't tell you how. — Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman