Brickbats Band Quotes & Sayings

Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional actions are the most contracted, dangerous form of fanatic stupor. — Timothy Leary

Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance. — Pope John Paul II

Study people's success stories hard. Study their failures even harder. — Sylvester Stallone

The thing about cancer is that it can always exceed your worst expectations. There is something pornographic about cancer's ability to confound your imagination. Whatever new obscenity cancer comes up with to torment and torture you, it can always do worse tomorrow. — Tony Parsons

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible. — Archimedes

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long. — Yahoo Serious

There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emtional, and a spiritual . Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person. — Rumer Godden

I was working up the courage to knock." "I don't look that bad in the morning." "It's pretty early. I wasn't sure you'd be up. — Shannon Stacey

Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive — Joseph Weizenbaum

We're all faced with moments when we must choose between the path of convenience or conviction. — Joseph Lieberman

We need to talk."
"Good talk or bad talk?"
"The kind that will make me glad you don't have access to your power so you don't spew flames everywhere. — Sarah J. Maas

This is the terrible thing girls like us have in common" she explained. "Parents, upbringings,lifestyles, that are painfully normal. Middle class."
It was almost amoral, being raised this way, she told me fiercely. We'd never really understand pain. And wasn't that the human condition? By shielding us from the real world, pressing their palms over our eyes during all the bad parts. our parents -our parents-were keeping us separate from humanity. We were something else entirely — Meg Haston

You always have to defend the imagination against idiots. — Ursula K. Le Guin