Famous Brat Pack Quotes & Sayings

You're allowed to have gravitas when you've got the wrinkles to prove it, but not when you're attractive and younger - or, at least, you have to fight really hard to prove you're capable of productive thought. — Mariella Frostrup

I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it? — Kate Winslet

Say thank you for a beautiful life and be grateful for the small things of life which are miracles we have actually got used to. Gratitude banishes negativity from your life, brings happiness and you start living in abundance and attract more love and prosperity because of the way you think about your life. — Sanchita Pandey

Sometimes family doesn't always consist of your relatives or by blood. Sometimes your best friends can feel more like family than your cousins. I think everybody kind of has that same feeling. When you go through an accident together, when you go through a traumatic event, sometimes that brings you closer together. — Michael B. Jordan

Vous avez, une vie bien vivre ... You have one life, live it well! — Timothy Pina

The mistakes we make everyday is to remind us that we are human. — Tai Jamison

Oh man, the car could just burst into flames right now and this would be the way to go, huh guys? — Kristen Schaal

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity. — Quentin Crisp

Oh, justice is what you're threatened with. — Thomas Cromwell

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone. — Jennifer Beals

Bubbles form when too many people expect values to go up forever. Bubbles burst when there are no longer enough excessively optimistic and ignorant folks to fuel them. And there are signs that this is beginning to happen already where education is concerned. — Glenn Harlan Reynolds

I was a kite miles out to sea. I was soaring without a string. — Mark Schreiber

Sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted, where there is no place for him; for if not, why should he want all the place? Why should he run about here and there making a great noise about himself, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass? — Joseph Conrad

The announcement yesterday follows Obama's 2011 agreement with automakers to build cars that average 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. But as important as fuel efficiency in automobiles may be, power plants are the largest concentrated source of carbon dioxide emissions. The EPA's new power-plant rules will reduce overall emissions by at least 80 times more metric tons of carbon than the regulations for cars. Almost all credible reports suggest the world is passing the point where it can reverse, or eliminate, global warming. But that only means it's more urgent than ever to push for historic carbon reductions. Nonetheless, many politicians - including the usual global-warming deniers and those from both parties in fossil-fuel-producing states - rushed to claim the new rules would cause steep economic damage. — Anonymous

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing. — Rachel Cohn