Bresnan Quotes & Sayings

After reading the salary, I've decided that I must refuse. The reason I have to refuse a salary like that is I would be able to do what I've always wanted to do- -get a wonderful mistress, put her up in an apartment, buy her nice things.. With the salary you have offered, I could actually do that, and I know what would happen to me. I'd worry about her, what she's doing; I'd get into arguments when I come home, and so on. All this bother would make me uncomfortable and unhappy. I wouldn't be able to do physics well, and it would be a big mess! What I've always wanted to do would be bad for me, so I've decided that I can't accept your offer. — Richard Feynman

If it doesn't taste good it doesn't go on the menu. — Heston Blumenthal

Indebtedness among historians is a peculiar thing, however. We don't simply, in mechanical fashion, inherit a body of knowledge, add something to it, and pass it on. We also question, test, and shake here and there the intellectual scaffolding surrounding our predecessors' work, in the full, ironic knowledge that someone else is going to come along and give the scaffolding surrounding our own work a good shake, too, that no historian, in short, is ever permitted the final word. — Paul A. Cohen

In 2004, we had a great year, with Samit Patel, Liam Plunkett, Tim Bresnan, Luke Wright, Alistair Cook. Some groups are not quite as strong. — Andy Pick

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I am a really quiet person. I just like to be with my children and my family and being home. I live one day at a time, enjoying the best of life, just living. — Miguel Cotto

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. — Thomas Moore

But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that. — Bryan Ferry

We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers. — Margaret Thatcher

If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine. — C.D. Wright

I just went into my studio and started to compile stuff. I was so happy with what was coming out that good momentum just carried over and when I would listen back to some of the riffs and some of the ideas, I was completely happy because I felt like, "wow, this was a breakthrough!" The ideas and the songs were really strong and I couldn't wait to show everybody the stuff. — Charlie Benante

America is ready for intelligent talk. I am ready to bring some humanity to TV. — John Walsh

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. — Lafcadio Hearn

By definition, design, and practice, capitalism is a system that concentrates economic power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many. — Anita Roddick