Roumain Brown Quotes & Sayings

Once you fall, Septimus repeated to himself, human nature is on you. Holmes and Bradshaw are on you. They scour the desert. They fly screaming into the wilderness. The rack and the thumbscrew are applied. Human nature is remorseless. — Virginia Woolf

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself? — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Normally, Dominic appreciated his even temper, but today it grated on him. Maybe the forty or so hours without sleep were beginning to catch up with him. He fought an impulse to toss his phone over the metal railing. The world wasn't the orderly, rational place Jake liked to organize it into. It was messy. It was ugly. And, most recently, it lacked justice. "How is Boston?" The inane question almost sent Dominic over the edge. "How do you think? — Ruth Cardello

She'd set herself up to fail. On purpose. In the most basic way a woman can. I shaved my bikini line and wore my best underwear. — Amanda Usen

I carry my flute around everywhere I go and pull it out. It actually becomes a panacea for me, for things that go on around me. It really gives me relief and calmness, tranquility. — Hubert Laws

Best way to stay out from under a microscope is to keep turning it around on the person trying to view you through it. — Karen Marie Moning

It is easy to time-travel, the physicist says - we do it every day. Travelling backward is the problem. — Rebecca Curtis

I do like to cook. But I only cook a few things, but those few things I do really well. — Eric Dane

The ultimate answer, then, to the problem of pain is a person. It's God himself. — Henry Cloud

Confucius said, "Before embarking upon a journey of revenge, dig two graves." I planned to dig seven. — Lili St. Germain

Every great revolution, whether it is right or not, we really know has any vital, urgent need to basis. It comes not just from itself. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again. — Abby Sunderland

One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful. — Andre Dubus III