Robert Brandt Quotes & Sayings

He looked like songs, sung to life. He looked life faraway places, planted here in Kayforl. — Christine Hinwood

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. — Colum McCann

When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck. — Henrik Ibsen

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn't Asian either — Eddie Huang

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the meeting of extremes round a corner. — Leigh Hunt

When I see something, I go for it. — Jackee Harry

We have to be educated by the other. My heart cannot be educated by myself. It can only come out of a relationship with others. And if we accept being educated by others, to let them explain to us what happens to them, and to let yourself be immersed in their world so that they can get into our world, then you begin to share something very deep. You will never be the person in front of you, but you will have created what we call communion. — Krista Tippett

...No one teaches well unless he has first learned well; no one learns well unless he learns in order to teach. And both learning and teaching are vain and unprofitable unless accompanied by practice. — Herman Witsius

She was a page torn from a calendar, a year folded neatly and laid aside in some place you never look. — William Gay

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped and summer was gone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti

You have to be in love with your story ... It's the love of the light; the time of day; of watching the moment unravel. — Lynn Johnston

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living? — Jessica Walter