Germinated Brown Quotes & Sayings

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language. — D.H. Lawrence

Writers who copy or plagiarise others are dreaming in another man's sleep. — Fennel Hudson

They'd scared me and had me thinking about what it meant to be really strong, on my own terms - not just fit and brown from the sun, not just flexible and accommodating. — Paula McLain

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity. — Leo Tolstoy

The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent — Albert Camus

It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.' — Tom Baker

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway. — Stanley Tucci

Picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three. — Ambrose Bierce

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman ... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. — Andreas Capellanus

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J.J. Abrams