Brustein Manasevit Quotes & Sayings

I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous. — Zayn Malik

As long as we as a society continue to belittle and dismiss women's accounts, disbelieve and question their stories, and blame them for their own assaults, we are playing right into the hands of those who silence victims by asking: "who would believe you anyways?". — Laura Bates

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn't be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew it would, back to the boonies. I was on patrol again. Monaco was on point. Peewee and Walowick followed him. Lobel and Brunner were next, then Johnson, the sixty cradled in his arm as if it were a child. We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill. I was in the rear, and for some reason I turned back. Behind me, trailing the platoon, were the others. Brew, Jenkins, Sergeant Dongan, Turner, and Lewis, the new guys, and Lieutenant Carroll.
I knew I was mixing my prayers, but it didn't matter. I just wanted God to care for them, to keep them whole. I knew they were thinking about me and Peewee. — Walter Dean Myers

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time. — James Fenton

I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense. — Susanna Clarke

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finally maintained...all existing things are, in an intelligible sense, imaginary. — John Stuart Mackenzie

Actresses are mental on the whole. But I think I'm pretty normal. — Alexandra Roach

If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people! — Chrisette Michele

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss. — Deborah Wiles

Every unhappy genius dreams to be in the place of a happy fool. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There must have been something about Harry Potter.
It was Thursday for everyone, after all, and yet this sort of thing didn't seem to happen to anyone else. — Eliezer Yudkowsky