Bravos Quotes & Sayings

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass. — Emma Goldman

I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time. — Banksy

Men have before hired bravos to transact their crimes, while their own person and reputation say under shelter. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life. — Richard Jeni

How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Potter — J.K. Rowling

If you think only of yourself, you'll only destroy yourself. — Eric Felten

If ever there was a prime-time trigger for PTSD you couldn't do much better than this, but lucky for Norm, the crowd, America, the forty-million-plus TV viewing audience, Bravos can deal, oh yes! Pupils dilated, pulse and blood pressure through the roof, limbs trembling with stress-reflex cortisol rush, but it's cool, it's good, their shit's down tight, no Vietnam-vet crackups for Bravo squad! You can march these boys straight into sound-and-light show hell and Bravos can deal, but damn, isn't it rude to put them through it. — Ben Fountain

I'm always thinking about young people first when I'm writing music. Whenever I can reach that young person and inspire them to go after their own dreams, start their own movement just like I did with Wondaland. Starting their own tribe and showing people that we are not all the same, we're not all monolithic. I think that's what it's all about for me. — Janelle Monae

Don't talk about shit you don't know, Billy thinks, and therein lies the dynamic of all such encounters, the Bravos speak from the high ground of experience. They are authentic. They are the Real. They have dealt much death and received much death and smelled it and held it and slopped through it in their boots, had it spattered on their clothes and tasted it in their mouths. That is their advantage, and given the masculine standard America has set for itself it is interesting how few actually qualify. Why we fight, yo, who is this we? Here in the chicken-hawk nation of blowhards and bluffers, Bravo always has the ace of bloods up its sleeve. — Ben Fountain

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos. — Ben Hecht

Punk had picked the locks, sluiced out into the grid. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors. — Anonymous

The art of life requires pigments from distant lands. — William Widmaier

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it. — Roseanne Barr

Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again. — Madeleine L'Engle

I was never interested in film. Never. I never even thought of it. I wasn't even a film buff, I didn't see many films ever. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala