Breccia Grain Quotes & Sayings

The touch of reality is salvation for the man who smothers amid forms and shadows. A blind man would rejoice in sight though his eyes opened on the carnage of a battlefield. — Oscar W. Firkins

You have only one opportunity to live, so remember to be alive. — Debasish Mridha

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube ... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell? — John Slattery

I can't compare the lives I could have lived. One would have been comfort and security. But the other ... " She sighs. "It was the most love and the most pain and the most wonder I could have ever known. — Carrie Ryan

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger. — Bill Bradley

You mean fiction?" I said.
"I mean flesh-and-blood stories about what happens outside your head, Albert. Stories that touch your heart. — Peggy Hesketh

I lived in a community where celibacy was the rule. My I saw many people asked to leave the ashram for so much as looking intensely at a member of the opposite sex. — Frederick Lenz

How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians. — Joseph Sobran

Before having children, I think I probably approached work very differently, and you become much more economical and pragmatic about your relationship to it. — Cate Blanchett

He linked his fingers with hers. And because he had used it when he'd hurt her, he balanced that out by using it now. "A ghra."
"Huh?" A line appeared between her brows. "Is that Gaelic again?"
"Yes." He brought their joined fingers to his lips. "Love. My love. — J.D. Robb

There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior. — David Byrne

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows. — William James

Fat raindrops are starting to fall and no doubt it's only a matter of time before the sky is throwing buckets of water in my face. — Penelope Fletcher

All of this took about a minute, but time stretches out when you're witnessing an abomination. — Jeremy Robert Johnson