Brimming River Quotes & Sayings

The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature. — Rachel Cusk

I became a wrestling fan in college. So, I was more of a wrestling fan as an adult than when I was a little kid. — Judah Friedlander

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. — Edmund Burke

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; — Anonymous

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk. — Orhan Pamuk

Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis XIV, to pick a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. He would have desired someone to pick up the socks, put the records away, and maybe burn the place down. Michelangelo would have been distressed by its proportions, which were neither lofty nor shaped by any noticeable inner harmony or symmetry, other than that all parts of the room were pretty much equally full of old coffee mugs, shoes and brimming ashtrays, most of which were sharing their tasks with each other. The walls were painted in almost precisely that shade of green which Rafaello Sanzio would have bitten off his own right hand at the wrist rather than use, and Hercules, on seeing the room, would probably have returned half an hour later armed with a navigable river. — Douglas Adams

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own. — Dianne Wiest

Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals. — Ray Dalio

Happiness is a piece of fudge caught on the first bounce. — Charles M. Schulz

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play. — Maurice Baring

For Jesus, the question wasn't, "How do I get into heaven?" but "How do I bring heaven here? — Rob Bell

This is exciting," said J.Lo. "We are sneaky agent men, like Bond James Bond."
"I don't know where you pick this stuff up. — Adam Rex