Brass Verdict Quotes & Sayings

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand. — Paul Hawken

A warm, ragged breath disturbed the hairs on my forehead, and my blood began pricking as I realized where exactly I had retreated: right into Mr. Braddock, our strange connection humming through the hairsbreadth of distance between our bodies, our faces. I froze, forcing myself to stop shoving against him further. Before I understood anything, a rough, large hand brushed my chin, my face tipped upwards, and his mouth caught mine, and suddenly my entire body was on fire. Whatever odd sensation had thrummed between us before was just the stroke of a violin bow to this clash of an orchestra. I felt the world pass between our lips, tasting champagne, hunger, and something indefinably darker, while his hand ignited sparks down my cheek to the nape of my neck. He wrapped an arm around my waist, pulling me closer, forcing that elusive essence to run deeper than my skin, deeper than my veins, until my very bones vibrated. — Tarun Shanker

I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.' — Frank Serpico

I like to have projects that belong completely to me. If done right, it can also pay better. But the majority of my projects are still destined for publishers. — Jeremy Robinson

Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books. — S.E. Hinton

I learned pretty early is I never defend my material; it's for other people to if someone is offended. It's so subjective, and if you don't find it funny, it's definitely going to be offensive. — Sarah Silverman

Novels seem to exist because of this need to know and connect, and so story becomes charged with necessity. — Michael Helm

The image is a pure creation of the mind. It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities. The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true, the stronger the image will be - the greater its emotional power and poetic reality ... — Pierre Reverdy

I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan

nothing in the universe comes without a price; that in every instance you received something you wanted, you had to give up something you had, and in every instance you lost something, you gained something you did not have. — Sharath Komarraju

Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times — Katha Pollitt

I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers. — Todd Tiahrt

Here in the north each night is a whole winter long. Yet the place is fair enough, doubt it not! Thou shalt see sights here such as thou hast not seen in the halls of the English king. We shall be together as sisters whilst thou bidest with me; we shall go down to the sea when the storm begins once more; thou shalt see the billows rushing upon the land like wild, white-maned horses - and then the whales far out in the offing! They dash one against another like steel-clad knights! Ha, what joy to be a witching-wife and ride on the whale's back - to speed before the skiff, and wake the storm, and lure men to the deeps with lovely songs of sorcery! — Henrik Ibsen

If you agree that the person you were few years ago will take advice from the person you are now, you have made a clear progress in life. — Dhaval Gajera