Mutual Understanding Brainy Quotes & Sayings

I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It's much richer tapestry for me than green fields. Fields and wild life make me feel ill. I don't like - I don't want to write about that stuff. — Mark Billingham

Heaven only knows why we love it so. — Michael Cunningham

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. — Austin Phelps

It is possible for you to get a grip on the thing that used to have a grip on you. And instead of it controlling you- you are now controlling it. — T.D. Jakes

Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail. — John C. Calhoun

I don't like fashionistas. They only wear the brand. You want to become a fashionista? Easy! Spend money. — Franca Sozzani

And so I was doing that and starving and somebody said you should model and I ran when they told me how much money you could make and I did a television commercial the first job. — Sela Ward

I think anyone who gives you relationship advice goes off of past relationships they have that didn't work. You've got to follow your own path. — Terrence J

This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested. — Jeffrey Tambor

I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, whatever song was playing when I was in there is in my head for the next few days and I can't change the channel. — Mark Farner

It is popularly known that it takes one thousand hours to master something, anything. But what you and I are looking for is not the high end mastery but we just want to be good at it, enough to see us through our daily lives. This is where the 21 day rule comes in. — Angelina Talpa

When I was looking at the Russian Constructivists, these agitprop artists actually painted on trains. It was a heavy influence. They were bringing art to the people, to the masses, and breaking it out of the clubbiness of the art world, which is a monolith. — Jeffrey Deitch