Brockey Quotes & Sayings

The very nature of economics is rooted in nationalism ... It [was] developed ... in the hope of throwing light upon questions of policy. But policy means nothing unless there is an authority to carry it out, and authorities are national. — Joan Robinson

The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail — Walt Whitman

I wouldn't play the normal girl. I don't think that that's interesting or realistic, as far as how human beings really are. — Madeline Zima

Let those who will write the nation's laws, if I can write its textbooks. — Paul Samuelson

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty. — John Howard

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days. — Garrison Keillor

Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise. — Chuck Palahniuk

Your attitude defines your success and your failure. — Debasish Mridha

The day is always good, you just have to ignore the bad and look for the good. Remember it takes more muscle to frown then it does to smile, so smile for another day. — James Jean-Pierre

Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid, clinging, swamplike pit of despair that lies dormant within every soul, lurks JEALOUSY. Jealousy, that most demeaning and debilitating of emotions. Jealousy, which can double the strength of the love upon which it is based, but whilst doubling it, warp and pervert it, untill it is no longer recognizable as the thing of beauty it once was. Jealous love is no more like true love than Mr Hyde was like Dr Jekyll or a stagnant swamp is like a freshwater lake. — Ben Elton

Practice being kind to yourself in small, concrete ways. Look at your refrigerator. Are you feeding yourself nicely? Do you have socdks? An extra set of sheets? What about a new house plant? A thermos for the long drive to work? Allow yourself to pitch out some of your ragged clothes. You don't have to keep everything. — Julia Cameron

I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape. — Del Shannon

When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said ... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies. — Giorgio Vasari