Brently Quotes & Sayings

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. — Benjamin Disraeli

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else? — Chris Weitz

I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently, said the captain. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Me and polite have never been on close terms. — Jim Butcher

Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye. — Henry David Thoreau

I know how to use the safety.-Andrea, the Walking Dead S3 finale — Robert Kirkman

While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17. — Jack Falahee

Give serious thought to why your company should care about your strategy. Specifically, find problems that the board wants to be solved. What are senior managers scared of? Part of becoming a credible strategic thinker is learning effective approaches to selling ideas for your situation. You'll know that you're getting better at selling (or pitching) strategy when managers start coming to you when there is strategic thinking to be done. — Max McKeown

It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far. — Wendy Kopp

All religion is in daily need of reformation because all religion, in both blatant and subtle ways, seeks to make itself and its creeds, codes, and cults more important than the revelation and experience it is meant to serve and pass on. — Paul F. Knitter

Life is too precious to spend it with important people. — Harry Partch

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination. — Stephen King

Every new thing you make will be (should be) the nicest thing you've made so far, because you're learning and getting better with each and every new project. — Jessica Hische

But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we in the North who are the true people of corn ... Compared to us, Mexicans today consume a far more varied carbon diet: the animals they eat still eat grass (until recently, Mexicans regarded feeding corn to livestock as a sacrilege); much of their protein comes from legumes; and they still sweeten their beverages with cane sugar.
So that's us: processed corn, walking. — Michael Pollan