Brunishs Quotes & Sayings

If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole. — Ross Macdonald

They have known one another since they were young, and if they cannot forget that once they loved in a way that comes not twice to any man — Marion Zimmer Bradley

You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it. — Greg Norman

To the matter at hand: though English has traditionally been a largish department, you will find there are very few viable candidates capable of assuming the mantle of DGS. In fact, if I were a betting man, I'd wager that only 10 percent of the English instruction list will answer your call for nominations. Why? First, because more than a third of our faculty now consists of temporary (adjunct) instructors who creep into the building under cover of darkness to teach their graveyard shifts of freshman comp; they are not eligible to vote or to serve. Second, because the remaining two-thirds of the faculty, bearing the scars of disenfranchisement and long-term abuse, are busy tending to personal grudges like scraps of carrion on which they gnaw in the gloom of their offices. Long story short: your options aren't pretty. — Julie Schumacher

Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and eat hot h'ors d'ourves. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground. — Paul Rudnick

Within a few moments the last of day became the first of night, a magic as peculiar and welcome as any other. — Gregory Maguire

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus. — Darrin Patrick

An idea that is confident always looks masculine. — Thom Browne

It's always a fun collaboration with my brother. I'm very fortunate to be able to work with him. There's an honesty to collaboration. There's a lack of a gender or ego in our conversations. And so you can really throw anything around. — Christopher Nolan

Everything was on television last night — Don DeLillo

I look in the mirror now, and even if I lost weight, there's just ... Theres' nothing I can do. It's over. My bodyness. My attractiveness in my body. I can diet forever but it will never make me like I was. — Elizabeth Berg

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones. — Maureen Johnson

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge. — Sam Taylor-Wood

I won't have anything to do with the Nobel Prize ... it's a pain in the ... (LAUGHS). I don't like honors. — Richard Feynman