Brydian Quotes & Sayings

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture ... — Isadora Duncan

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart. — Thomas Adcock

great literature is literature that speaks to deep, fundamental human truths and experience in a way that is relatable to the reader and that may provoke engagement or facilitate insight into these truths and experiences. If these truths and experiences are about breaches of the normal, then surely horror has a place in literature, and in facts may proffer deep engagement with the most profound aspects of our existence. Sometimes only horror can say what needs to be said. — Jacob M. Held

Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery. — Khalil Gibran

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing. — Ang Lee

I may not be desperate. But I'm close. — Kristin Billerbeck

Fifteen years ago, this would have been insider trading, but that quaint concept had disappeared a decade or two ago when so many brokers were doing it that it was impossible to jail them all. Now it was called smart trading. — Max Barry

The first season of a show is kind of like an extended pilot. You're only really on the map if it goes a second season. — David Walton

Nearly all rich and powerful people are not notably talented, educated, charming or good-looking. They become rich and powerful by wanting to be rich and powerful. — Paul Arden

Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty. — L. Frank Baum

Don't hate anyone," Beata said quietly. "It's too much work. And it only poisons you. — Danielle Steel

Jack, sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone. You understand? — R.J. Palacio

Then, on December 14, 1999, an alert United States Customs agent in Port Angeles, Washington, stopped a nervous twenty-three-year-old Algerian named Ahmed Ressam who was crossing over from Canada on the last ferry of the evening. He had explosives in his trunk and plans to blow them up at the Los Angeles International Airport. The case galvanized the government into an all-out millennium alert. Watson and the White House counterterrorism group met around the clock. They sought an extraordinary number of FISA wiretaps; Janet Reno authorized at least one warrantless search on her own authority. Clarke — Tim Weiner