Brenengen Quotes & Sayings

Head clear. Mouth shut. See much. Say little. — Stephen King

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Our responsibility, as individual cells of a living organism, is to perform our individual functions as well as possible. Our orders come from within; they are not imposed from without. We are free to be ourselves, as fully as we can; and the more we are ourselves, the better we will be functioning, and the more satisfaction we will feel. Our lives grow richer and richer as the health of the total organism improves. Our destiny is unimaginably high. — Paul S. Williams

Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness. — Mary Wollstonecraft

He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me? — Ilona Andrews

For a person of wrong mental attitude the whole world is wrong and for a person of right mental attitude the same world is a beautiful world. — Deepak Burfiwala

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved far for years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy. — Bill Gates

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves. — David Hockney

Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows. — Charles Dickens

By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car to be respected, or buy the latest thing to come along simply to satisfy the desire that has been formed and implanted in us. It is important to appreciate that these disciplinary mechanisms transmit values and truth claims, but not via propositions or cognitive means; rather, the values are transmitted more covertly ... This covertness of the operation is also what makes it so powerful: the truths are inscribed in us through the powerful instruments of imagination and ritual. — James K.A. Smith

Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things. — Steve Brown

Some of them would survive to become fruit as good as anything on earth. Others would wither on the branch, killed by frost, wasted. — Lauren Wolk