Brickhouse Tavern Quotes & Sayings

First they burn the books, and then the bodies follow — Kane X. Faucher

I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic. — Patrick Stewart

Then again, I threatened if my stomach got my head chopped off I'd never feed it again. — Nicole Peeler

Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can only be a spiritual happiness, related to the past in the rescue of the culture of early ages and to the future in a serene and indefatigable championship of the spirit in a time which would otherwise completely swallow up the material. — Hermann Hesse

Happiness ceases to be a normal condition of being alive, and becomes a goal. — Jean Liedloff

Why do I keep evading my work? Is it because I'm afraid of being confronted by my lack of abilities? — Candace Bushnell

Ignorance, far more than idleness, is the mother of all the vices; and how recent has been the admission, that knowledge should be the portion of all? The destinies of the future lie in judicious education; an education that must be universal, to be beneficial. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

With its grace and carelessness, it seemed to annihilate a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though [all] could be swept into a nothingness by a single splendid movement of the arm. — George Orwell

The future could go this way, that way. The future's futures have never looked so rocky. Don't put money on it. Take my advice and stick to the present. It's the real stuff, the only stuff, it's all there is, the present, the panting present. — Martin Amis

The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling. — Plutarch

You have to believe what you say, and if you believe what you are saying, then acting is easy. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination. — Vanna Bonta

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps. — Charlotte Bronte

The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present. — Francoise Sagan