Brownridge Greenhouse Quotes & Sayings

You don't have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one.
-Henrietta Barrett, (Minx, Splendid Trilogy book #3) — Julia Quinn

We are here to laugh at the odds. — Charles Bukowski

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies. — George R R Martin

But as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying. — Catherynne M Valente

There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion. — George Will

We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment. — Barack Obama

The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory. — Eckhart Tolle

Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs. — Jeanne DuPrau

Perhaps it is not so much what we learn that matters in these moments of awe and wonder, but what we feel in relationship to a world beyond ourselves, even beyond our own species. — Terry Tempest Williams

I wonder if Stephen King ever uses dreams in his writing. You know, as yeast to make the plot rise. — Stephen King

Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity — George Bernard Shaw

Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact it is a learned phenomenon. The world you live in, including the experience of your body, is completely dictated by how you learned to perceive it. If you change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world. — Deepak Chopra