Brattishly Quotes & Sayings

One of the ways that my show has been most successful is when it's dealing with women's issues, like Spanx and plucking and having heavy tits. That's why it feels like, creatively, an advantage. — Rachel Bloom

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh! — Charles Dickens

Words are mighty, words are living:Serpents with their venomous stings,Or bright angels, crowding round us,With heaven's light upon their wings:Every word has its own spirit,True or false, that never dies;Every word man's lips have utteredEchoes in God's skies. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language. — Zadie Smith

Happiness involves working toward meaningful goals. — Michel De Montaigne

Going where no man has gone before is more difficult than it sounds. Our cousins and ancestors were no less curious than we are, and were perhaps bolder. This world is their tomb.
You should look under the bed. — N.D. Wilson

He is so brilliant. He shines. He's beautiful with his hands that grab things and his tongue that says things and the way he stands and chews his food for so long, mashing it into a paste before he swallows. — Garth Stein

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself. — Paul J. Meyer

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get. — Robert Huber

American labor rights activist, on activities of the National Farm Workers Association Human law may know no distinction among men in respect of rights, but human practice may. — Frederick Douglass

His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates. — Vincent Canby

Do the best, all the best — Abbas Naqvi

The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today. — Peggy Noonan

Then we all sat around; we were supposed to be awed. I was brattishly unawed. — Sandra Newman

Eleven times Jesus died on the cross, Eleven times falls down a body thrown upward, Eleven times also I abandon the logical flow of thought. — Daniil Kharms