Brooke Magnanti Quotes & Sayings

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world. — Idi Amin

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. — Larry Page

Problems cannot be solved with the same mind set that created them. — Albert Einstein

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. — Richard Price

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering. — J.C. Lillis

There are times when I've had ideas walking down the street that I thought were great, and the minute I got onstage, I would think of them and go, 'Wow, that would never work,' even before I did it in front of the audience. — Gilbert Gottfried

Given enough time, even evolution evolves. — Eric Chaisson

At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time. — Jane Wagner

Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed — John Locke

A just man is not one who does no ill, But he, who with the power, has not the will. — Philemon

Today, these doormen, they wear body armour, armoured gloves, stab proof vests and all sorts; it's totally changed, you get shot at the door you are paid to stand at, never mind getting stabbed. Druggies go away, get a gun, return and start shooting at you! Yeah, times are changing fast and there are some nice kids out there and some of them are fucking wild. I can't see it getting better with these drug mugs because they get on them and they can't get off them again. — Stephen Richards

In this world, God must serve the Devil. — William Gaddis