Brause Quotes & Sayings

What do most people mean when they say that? So young. Something innocent, something appealing, something helpless. But youth is not that! Youth is crude, youth is strong, youth is powerful - yes, and cruel! And one thing more - youth is vulnerable. — Anonymous

There's nothing you could say that would shock me. — Laura Prepon

A Chinese philosophical work called The Secret of the Golden Flower says that "when purpose has been used to achieve purposelessness, the thing has been grasped." For a society surviving to no purpose is one that makes no provision for purposeless behavior - that is, for actions not directly aimed at survival, which fulfill themselves in being done in the present and do not necessarily imply some future reward. — Alan W. Watts

Nick loved his cousins, they were family after all, and according to his mother, you have to love family. Over the years, he had also noticed that the less he saw them, the more lovable they became. He would really love them if they moved to California. — Shannon Ryan

Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it," I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.
"I swear it," he echoed.
We sat like that a moment, hands touching. He grinned.
"I feel like I could eat the world raw. — Madeline Miller

So I suggest you cut the cackle and come to the horses. — Agatha Christie

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. — Henry Rollins

I have a saying, which is, 'Crazy is good for business.' I think rock and roll really is about being a bit crazy. — Billy Corgan

One of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off. — Spider Robinson

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony. — Jack Kevorkian

I have liked remembering almost as much as I have liked living. — William Maxwell

She looked pretty lively for a girl obsessed with death. — Marlene Perez

The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity. — Ambrose Bierce

A penis is a penis, but a hard-on is more like a message you send to other people. It's a desire, not a body part."
Brandt swiveled his chair around to face Donnelly, "'It's a desire, not a body part'? What kind of fucked-up angry feminist book did you get that out of?"
--Donnelly & Brandt — Xavier Mayne