Nathan Brooks Quotes & Sayings

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch. — Bette Davis

Sometimes it's possible to see misfortune coming and prepare for it, I guess, but most of the time, when a person disappears, it's as unexpected and shocking as hail in the middle of June. — Tiffany Baker

It's not free - Somebody had to pay for it! — Angelo N. Dallas

If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening. — Paulo Coelho

When I finish a first draft, it's always just as much of a mess as it's always been. I still make the same mistakes every time. — Michael Chabon

What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has. — Frederick Lenz

I am too selfish to be a mother, I can barely tolerate being his lover at this point. I am selfish and I make no apology for that. ~Shannon~ — A. Giannoccaro

I know it's not cat food, but what exactly is it that they put inside of tinned ravioli? — Douglas Coupland

There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue. — Craig Venter

I build only living stones
men. — Francois Rabelais

Thy soul shall find itself alone
'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone
Not one, of all the crowd, to pry
Into thine hour of secrecy.
Be silent in that solitude,
Which is not loneliness - for then
The spirits of the dead who stood
In life before thee are again
In death around thee - and their will
Shall overshadow thee: be still. [ ... ] — Edgar Allan Poe

The only way that I can do better than someone else, maybe they're better at something else, but they'll never beat me at work. — Kevin McCarthy

Instead, she sat there, smiling that small, small inscrutable smile, like Mona Lisa herself, although I must say that until that moment, I'd never found Mona Lisa's smile particularly interesting or even particularly a smile. Looking at Lake, I understood what probably everyone else already knows about the woman in that painting: we are drawn to her not because of what the smile gives us but because it gives us nothing. We are waiting to get past the smile. We are waiting
we've spent centuries waiting
for the woman to speak. — Marisa De Los Santos

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet. — Mel Brooks

For many readers, writers, editors and agents ... pretty much the working (in)definition: SF is short for So Fuck? — Hal Duncan

Now that things are so simple, there's so much to do. — John Cage