Broodiness Quotes & Sayings

Now, of course, architecture is a blind spot of our life in America today. How many millions of students go to the university to be educated? They come away conditioned, not enlightened, and they know nothing of architecture, although they have a department somewhere around
probably in the basement. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Now, brooder is an interesting word. People who worry a lot in silence are known as brooders. But then again so is a hen sitting on her eggs. The more I get to know chickens, the more I realize half our language comes from chickens. Well, not half. But an awful lot considering this isn't Latin or anything. Cooped up. Egghead. Hatch a plan. Henpecked. Pecker. Cock. Chickenshit. Chicken-scratch. A lot of chicken words are meant to deliver attitude, which isn't surprising to me now that I have chickens. Chickens aren't background animals like fish or sheep or horses. Chickens are in-your-face animals. Chickens if you have them, come to bracket your days. The rooster hollers all morning, and then in the evening the hens have left you their mysterious gift of eggs.
Silkies are said to be excellent brooders, to have a tendency toward "broodiness." This, too, is usually meant as a compliment. — Jeanne Marie Laskas

My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things. — Saffron Aldridge

it is hard to keep your feet on the earth while your heart looks for the heavens. — Muriel Maufroy

I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets. — Ed Gamble

I could write stories; I could hide from the world and make my own instead of trying to change it or live in it. I could make paper people and I would love them too; I could make them almost real. — Ally Condie

The goals made such a difference to the way this game went. — John Motson

In business, you're trying to make a buck. God was good to me and blessed me. I made some money and started this foundation years ago, and it has grown in size. With the foundation it's a lot different, because the bottom line isn't how you can make more money or get a better return, it's helping the projects that you feel strongly about move forward. — Lee Iacocca

You may have fucked a lot of women, James, but I'm your first lover. — R.K. Lilley

I have to admit it that the large quantity of US money poured into Vietnam provoked ii ... a lot of bad habits. — Bui Diem

German women love American men. That's why a lot of American servicemen go to Germany - and never come back. — Michael Strahan

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece. — Orison Swett Marden

Choose friends who are positive and loving. — Bella Sara