Othello Brabantio Quotes & Sayings

The mantle of leadership is not the cloak of comfort but rather the robe of responsibility. — Thomas S. Monson

It's hard to believe, but before manufacturing went to Asia, New York City was an industrial powerhouse. In the thirties and forties, seventy-five percent of women's clothes in the country were made right here between Sixth and Ninth Avenues, from Forty-Second down to Thirtieth. They were stitched up and put on racks and then rolled over to Macy's on Thirty-Fourth for sale. Everything was centered around Penn Station, so people from out of town could come in and shop. The garment district here is why New York's fashion industry still leads the world and Seventh Avenue means fashion. — James Patterson

Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English. — Lev Grossman

Are you getting hysterical?" Ty asked eagerly. "Can I smack you? — Madeleine Urban

You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in. — J.K. Rowling

When you pursue great flavor, you also pursue great ecology. — Dan Barber

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand. — Robert A. Caro

Tedium, yes, is boredom with the world, the nagging discomfort of living, the weariness of having lived; tedium is indeed the carnal sensation of endless emptiness of things. But tedium, even more than all that, is a boredom with other worlds, whether real or imaginary; the discomfort of having to keep living, albeit as someone else in some other way, in some other world; weariness not only of yesterday and today but also of tomorrow and of eternity, if such exists, or of nothingness, if that's what eternity is. It's not only the emptiness of things and living beings that troubles the soul afflicted by tedium, it's also the emptiness of the very soul that feels this vacuum, that feels itself to be this vacuum, and that within this vacuum is nauseated and repelled by its own self. — Pessoa, Fernando

My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best. — Anthony Trollope

Brabantio: "You are a villain!"
Iago: "You are a senator! — William Shakespeare

An executive is one who makes an immediate decision and is sometimes right — Elbert Hubbard

For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself. — Haruki Murakami

I couldn't exactly storm away in anger. I'd just have to close my eyes and shut out the universe. — Benjamin Alire Saenz