Brioschi Quotes & Sayings

I am slow. A sentence often takes an hour to compose before I throw it out. What can you do? — Edith Pearlman

I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing

I asked Phil Prentiss what he would do if they never got a baby and he said they'd die with a lot of excess love in their hearts ... ." "And let's not," Jack said. "Let's spend every drop. On the kids, on our families, on your patients, on the town. On people we don't know yet and the ones who have been our good friends forever. On each other. Let's spend our last drop as we're taking our last breaths. — Robyn Carr

There are two main drivers of asset class returns - inflation and growth. — Ray Dalio

Real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a fear of appearing weak. Real confidence settles in when you have a clear vision of exactly what you need to do. Real confidence blooms as you wield the skills and power you have built through your hard work and discipline. — Rob Brezsny

A labor victory must be economic and it must be revolutionizing. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did. — Georgia O'Keeffe

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all. — Julian Fellowes

Eleven minutes. That was how long the entire homicidal portrait lasted: one boy's life destroyed in less time than it took to cook a hamburger. — Maggie Stiefvater

Christianity and Islam are today the most numerous and fastest growing religions globally. Together they encompass more than half of humanity. Consequence: both are here to stay. — Miroslav Volf

You can't sit on two chairs at once. — Andrei Sakharov

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong. — Billy Graham

Underneath the moonlight,
we laid and laughed
like run-on sentences, kissed like ellipses, and
you held me so close that I wear my bones down smooth
against
the grain of your skin. — Shinji Moon

That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after. — Freya North