Bundini Brown Quotes & Sayings

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years. — Benjamin Franklin

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization. — Chris Alexander

He admitted but four elementary principles, or more strictly, conditions of bliss. That which he considered chief was (strange to say!) the simple and purely physical one of free exercise in the open air. "The health," he said, "attainable by other means is scarcely worth the name." He instanced the ecstasies of the fox hunter, and pointed to the tillers of the earth, the only people who, as a class, can be fairly considered happier than others. His second condition was love of woman. His third, and most difficult of realization, was the contempt of ambition. His fourth was an object of unceasing pursuit; and he held that, other things being equal, the extent of attainable happiness was in proportion to the spirituality of this object. — Edgar Allan Poe

Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? — William Shakespeare

The sunflower is a favorite emblem of constancy — Thomas Bulfinch

There's a story that during the filming of Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola had a sign on his trailer: Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two. — Maria Semple

We are in a period of such individualism that one no longer speaks of disciples; one speaks of thieves. — Jean Cocteau

We get up in the morning feeling tired. Sometimes we feel good, sometimes bad, but we go through it with feeling. That's the root to the truth, that's where everything starts — Drew Bundini Brown

For years afterward when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the cold slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it. Eleanor was, say, the last time that evil crept close to Amory under the mask of beauty, the last weird mystery that held him with wild fascination and pounded his soul to flakes. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When a man is a Traveler, the world is his house & the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, & all the people are his family — Drew Bundini Brown

We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH! — Drew Bundini Brown

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. — Steve Martin

Radiation frauds are alive and well in western societies. — Steven Magee

To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite. — C.J. Ducasse