Kate Brannigan Quotes & Sayings

It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations — Frederick The Great

When you work on a pre-existing character, when you end up getting invited to be part of a legacy character like Superman, I don't feel like it would be true to the character if all I did was go in looking to express my own voice. — Gene Luen Yang

And all of this, all these physical aspects of painting at that time excited me very much. You could do a picture in just black and white. I mean all the things, whether you're soliciting permission or not, do give you permission. — Robert Rauschenberg

When you show up at a rally supporting a bill, you are supporting the bill. — Charlie Dent

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. — Harriet Van Horne

The young man's mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recollection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint the dreams of his manhood. — Sherwood Anderson

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues. — Alex Pareene

Niagara Falls is the hanging tongue on the face of the earth, drooling endlessly over its own beauty. — Vinita Kinra

I'm not into little boys till they're old enough to have their own credit card. — Val McDermid

I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!' — Ellsworth Kelly

When all else fails, go for the ego. — Val McDermid

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. — Ellen DeGeneres

The hardest thing about being a grown up is realizing there are no magic formulas to release the ones we love from pain. Maybe that's why I enjoy computer games so much; you get to be God. — Val McDermid

I don't want to reject my life. I want to change my life without changing my life. — Gretchen Rubin

If I didn't like her so much, I'd hate her. — Val McDermid

Everybody's got the right to go to hell in the handcart of their choice. — Val McDermid

It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own.
He was going to new possibility, new dreams. But he was leaving behind places and people. And though, being young, he was sure he would see them all again some day, he knew too that many years might pass before he did so.
It was not easy to leave. — Mary Balogh

You know it's a bad case when the only way you can catch up on your sleep is to get unconscious. — Val McDermid

The vices of authority are chiefly four: delays, corruption, roughness and facility. Francis Bacon More — J.D. Robb

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are. — Carl Von Clausewitz