Brookston Quotes & Sayings

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem. — Nouman Ali Khan

We Live Must Have A Dream , But Doesn't Means Life Is Just A Dream. — Jemmy Wiratama

I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.' — Maya Angelou

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh. — Clare Balding

Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know. — Kathryn Hughes

I've always been a fella who put most of my eggs in one basket and then take a dump in the basket but I really don't know. — Robert Downey Jr.

Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns of Squaw Lake, Ponemah, Brookston in Minnesota, and Manderson, Wounded Knee and Wakpala (South Dakota) as well as Mandaree in North Dakota will mean hardships for a largely Native community. — Winona LaDuke

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable. — Lord Robertson

[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption
not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere. — Julian Sanchez

In 'Malvolio,' the audience laugh at me, and I use that laughter to crack open the question as to why they are laughing. — Tim Crouch