Bruenners Quotes & Sayings

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. — Albert Schweitzer

Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. - Thomas Mann, Joseph and His Brothers — Kim Edwards

It's OK to figure out murder mysteries, but you shouldn't need to figure out code. You should be able to read it. — Steve McConnell

There is a man who has won the decathlon of human existence."* — William F. Buckley Jr.

But his face had that hollow look, as if there was something gone ... you know that look. The inward focus. Distantly attentive to the home you're missing, or the someone you're missing. That look that a bird has when it turns it dry reptilian eye on you. That look that doesn't see you because the mind is filled up with someone it would rather see. — Gregory Maguire

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. — Antonia Fraser

The money paid at consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers ... — Mike Huckabee

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. — Henry Miller

Don't try to make them happy, you'll only get in trouble. Don't try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig. — Anthony De Mello

A vital component of charity and grace is the ability not to draw attention to one's possession of them. Penelope pursed her lips as she pushed Eloise — Julia Quinn

Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska - sweet, warm and gungy on the outside, hard and cold within. — C.P. Snow

I get through some print. — Ken Bruen