Brookeland Quotes & Sayings

'Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come. — Tom Shales

A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other. — John Gould

A new, more efficient system was to be put in place, although, as with so many other such initiatives, it would later be revealed that it was less efficient and more costly than the original. — John Connolly

A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor. — Ugo Betti

Everyone says that looks don't matter, age doesn't matter, money doesn't matter. But i never met a girl yet who has fallen in love with an old ugly man who's broke. — Rodney Dangerfield

What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a sexual being - while in ordinary life a healthy person is one who prevents such a gap from opening up — Susan Sontag

World's freakiest bloodsucker, right here," I went on. "And you know what? If it makes some of you uncomfortable, too bad. If it makes some of you so uncomfortable you want to start shit with me about it, step right up and see if I don't eat the hell out of you next!"
I'd meant that last part as a threat, but somewhere in my impassioned declaration of independence from hiding what I was, I'd neglected to think through my phrasing. I saw Bones raise a brow, a muffled snicker broke out from Ian, and then Vlad laughed loud and hearty.
"With that sort of invitation, Reaper, you might want to suggest the line form to your right."
"That's not ... I meant eat them in a bad way," I sputtered. — Jeaniene Frost

How is it possible, she thought, that a person can drive a thinking, feeling, animal to slaughter and not become less than an animal himself? — Haven Kimmel

As you become present and thereby total in what you do, your actions become charged with spiritual power. — Eckhart Tolle

Her laugh was as fragile as the leaves she had raked when I was five. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Light didn't conduct truth as once he'd thought. There was nothing you could do to preserve truth. Light was only of use as a metaphor for the ungraspable moment. — Ali Shaw

My landlord is eating a blueberry-blooded Popsicle. — David Mitchell

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history. — Bryant McGill

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke