Brisdon Australia Quotes & Sayings

How he managed to sound part pouting toddler and part alert soldier, she'd never know, but he managed it. — Amy J. Hawthorn

I start the engine and shoot a glance through the tinted window, figuring if anyone is still watching, they can no longer see past my silhouette. Gray seems to have been waiting for a movement like this. He's waving like a dork and swinging my long forgotten pink hoodie high in the air so I can see it.
He's yelling, "Bye Jess!" He flips my hoodie onto his shoulders and ties it around his neck until it looks like a ridiculous scarf - as though he means to wear it like that for a long time. — Anne Eliot

The very violence of a revolution may make the public grand and splendid for a moment. It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant and twaddle? — Oscar Wilde

Seen from the expressway at quarter to five in the morning, Boston seems a city of the dead brooding over some tragedy in its past - a plague, perhaps, or a curse. — Stephen King

A deck of cards is built like the purest of hierarchies, with every card a master to those below it, a lackey to those above it. — Ely Culbertson

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. — Swami Sivananda

I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was so desperate to get a job and couldn't and so it's kind of an anathema for me to turn down work. — Matt Damon

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody. — Robert McNamara

I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out. — Clive Anderson

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire? — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro