Brian Charles Houston Quotes & Sayings

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops. — Shunroku Hata

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive. — William S. Burroughs

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business. — Hank Azaria

The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now-inside and out-all I see is beauty. — Katie McGarry

[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered. — Iain M. Banks

Love brings confidence, kindness and beauty in life. — Debasish Mridha

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind. — Frank Harris

At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. — George Orwell

He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage. — Steven Pressfield

Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created with the clamoring crowds deserted and retrenched. — Steve Martin

Oh we have hard times to live through, those of us who are born spectators. — Ivan Turgenev

Being smart is no longer about having superior knowledge; it's about being superior at finding other people's knowledge and using it to your advantage. — Mark Middo