Broddanes Quotes & Sayings

To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. — Charlotte Bronte

If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each other on moments of great happiness and closeness. How can we know happiness and closeness without contrasting them, like lights? — Jack Kerouac

How potent was that word. With. — Margaret Atwood

You need a graphic understanding of a situation to make a complete judgment and we didn't have that. — William Scranton

Forget what you were, and look forward to what you could be. — Nicole Sager

Anyone who believes that you can make art from language is part of a small, nearly-vanishing community, and we should all form a wedge and march on the enemy. Do we need different uniforms in this struggle, different stripes on our arms so that it's clear who the realists are? Maybe, but I care less and less. — Ben Marcus

Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything. — Karen Russell

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort. — Margaret Landon

Over his shoulder, he called out, "Give an inch ... "
"And I'll want six of seven more," Logan called back.
"Jesus," Tate laughed. — Ella Frank

I don't feel like I've got all that much too important to say on the kind of big national issues. — George W. Bush

From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with the line of his native interests, and offer him objects that have some immediate connection with these. — William James

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere. — Iris Murdoch

Are you in earnest resolved never to barter your liberty for the lordly servitude of a court, but to live free, fearless, and independent? There seems to be one way to continue in that virtuous resolution; and perhaps but one. Never enter the place from whence so few have been able to return; never come within the circle of ambition; nor ever bring yourself into comparison with those masters of the earth who have already engrossed the attention of half mankind before you. — Adam Smith