Briggensians Quotes & Sayings

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes. — Todd Akin

Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to?
The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to say to a student 'Your feelings and ideas are suspect. You need to think and speak our way. — Paul Lockhart

The crowd mistrusts the allurement of paladins. The masses, ponderous bodies that they are, and fragile on account of their very heaviness, fear adventure; and there is adventure in the ideal. — Victor Hugo

Certainly it's nice to have historic moments like this but eventually somebody will break this record. We're aiming for the end result, otherwise the rest is useless. — Fabio Capello

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater. — Bette Davis

You live in a world at war. Spiritual attack must be a category you think in or you will misunderstand more than half of what happens in your marriage. — John Eldredge

I like the British public. There is something in this country called tall poppy syndrome. You're good but you're not that good, pal, OK? The natural state of our nation is slightly miserable, and probably the healthier for it. In America you don't get a key down the side of your Bentley ... — Steve Coogan

I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me. — Tracy Chapman

I wouldn't say I was a queen. Maybe a little elf. — Parker Posey

Faith is as much the gift of God as is the Saviour upon whom that faith relies. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hippocrates obviously never came across any of the people I deal with on a daily basis. If he had, he would have amended that oath to say, I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone. (Unless they're rolling up on me. In which case, it's game on, motherfucker.) — Callie Hart