Eggplant Brainy Quotes & Sayings

The Ephebians made wine out of anything they could put in a bucket, and ate anything that couldn't climb out of one. — Terry Pratchett

There is more than one way to measure profits and losses. On every level, institutions can and should have a heart. — Randy Pausch

But for the blood he could have been a normal Joe out on a stroll. But for the kid's scalp swinging in the breeze, he could've been anyone. But he wasn't. He was Kreagar Hallet. Murdering, kid-killing bastard Kreagar Hallet. Took me far too long to figure that out and no prettied-up words would change it now. I — Beth Lewis

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother. — Rick Riordan

From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone who lived in the jungle with natives and lots of wild animals, and I couldn't imagine anything better than that! Unlike other little boys, most of whom changed their minds about what they want to be several times as they grew older, I never wavered from this ambition. — John Goddard

This is the terrible thing about learning everything from books - sometimes you don't know how to say the words. You know the ideas, but you cannot discuss them with people with any confidence. And so you stay silent. It is the curse of the autodidact. Or "autodidiact," as I said, on the same shameful day. Oh, that was a conversation that went so wrong. — Caitlin Moran

Only if you have some knowledge of the human sacrifices, the vicious temple rites, the degrading superstitions and customs that were practiced ... can you realize how much the modern world owes to the Hebrew prophets, whose monotheism and moral teachings entered into Christianity and Islam ... — Carlton J. H. Hayes

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism. — Marvin J. Ashton

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network. — David E. Kelley

It didn't occur to us. We had swum in the ocean of religion all our lives and not gotten wet. — Jane Smiley