Bruits Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which it is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought. Thought's dictation, free from any control by the reason, independent of any aesthetic or moral preoccupation. — Andre Breton

Mary in Christianity, Isis in ancient Egypt, Demeter in Greece, Venus in Rome and Guan Yin in China have all functioned as conduits to recollections of early tenderness. Their statues often stand in darkened, womb-like spaces, their faces are compassionate and supportive, they enable us to sit, talk and cry with them. The similarities between them are too great to be coincidental. We are dealing here with figures that have evolved not out of shared cultural origins but in response to the universal needs of the human psyche. — Alain De Botton

He who would be free must strike the first blow. — Frederick Douglass

When it comes to what you really want in life. Dont take no for an answer. Take no for a question and Go for it! — Bernard Kelvin Clive

All are shaped by things beyond their control, traits inherited, traits learned. For Linus, the piece of his leg bone that had refused to lengthen defined him. As he grew, lameness begot shyness, shyness begot stammer, and thus Linus grew into an unlikeable little boy who discovered that attention came his way only when he behaved badly. — Kate Morton

Society,
the only field where the sexes have ever met on terms of equality, the arena where character is formed and studied, the cradle and the realm of public opinion, the crucible of ideas, the world's university, at once a school and a theater, the spur and the crown of ambition, the tribunal which unmasks pretension and stamps real merit, the power that gives government leave to be, and outruns the lazy Church in fixing the moral sense of the eye. — Wendell Phillips

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history — Iain Banks

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place. — Mads Mikkelsen

A father's suspicion...' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'


~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold