Brisker Quotes & Sayings

I think your hair could blow every which ways in a high wind and still look pretty," he answered, then dropped his gaze and cleared his throat. "Uh, well, are you ready to go?" he added in a brisker tone."
Joshua — Werner A. Lind

All of us little bald white guys wearing glasses kind of look the same. — Moby

There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion. — Christopher Smart

Oh! ye poor mortals," she went on, with a sudden burst of passion; "ye beseech your gods for the gift of many years, being ignorant that ye would sow a seed within your breasts whence ye must garner ten thousand miseries. Know ye not that this world is indeed the wide house of hell, in whose chambers from time to time the spirit tarries a little while, then, weary and aghast, speeds wailing to the peace that it has won. — H. Rider Haggard

Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces ... where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle. — Witold Gombrowicz

It is often very illuminating ... to ask yourself how you got at the facts on which you base your opinion. Who actually saw, heard, felt, counted, named the thing, about which you have an opinion? — Walter Lippmann

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare
Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air. — Richard Owen Cambridge

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.' ...
'And I won't give up. — Christopher Paolini

This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States. — Ricardo Alarcon

Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not. — A.E. Housman

I would have to commit a crime and have cops chase me. That would be the only way to get me to jog five miles. — Denis Leary

You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are. — Brett Brown

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them. — William Jennings Bryan

Male sexual response is far brisker and more automatic. It is triggered easily by things - like putting a quarter in a vending machine. — Alex Comfort