Scherff Brandon Quotes & Sayings

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.' — Kevin Hart

There is much boasting among the young men about their teams as their horse and carts in Cleveland. Most of the Yorkshire men take as much delight in their ox draught as they used to do in their Horse Draught. — Nathaniel Smith

I remember something Mrs. Harbor once said on one of her crazy tangents in English: that Plato believed that the whole world - everything we can see - was just like shadows on a cave wall. We can't actually see the real thing, the thing that's casting the shadow in the first place. — Lauren Oliver

Playing video games and making comics didn't look like raw materials for success. In fact, what we were doing looked very similar to fucking around. — Jerry Holkins

Whatever you do, with whom you do it or whether you do it alone, and when, and how, and why, to what mysterious end - it's balanced against nothing, against Death and forgetting. You balanced against oblivion. — Joyce Carol Oates

New York is where you go to catch a big fish. — Jessica Cutler

Though what bird in the best of circumstances does not look a little stricken? — Lorrie Moore

Character is doing the right thing even when it costs more than you want to pay. When it comes to character, you dont have to be sick to get better. Its easier for a good person to get better than for a bad person to get good. — Michael Josephson

No one understands eternity. One simply recognizes its existence. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Not so easy to put flesh and blood on the bones of an intellectual conviction; Martha was remembering with shame the brash and easy way she had said to Joss that she repudiated race prejudice; for the fact was, she could not remember a time when she had not thought of people in terms of groups, nations, or colour of skin first, and as people afterwards. — Doris Lessing

Suffering comes from three quarters: from our own body, which is destined to decay and dissolution, and cannot even dispense with anxiety and pain as danger-signals; from the outer world, which can rage against us with the most powerful and pitiless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations with other men. — Sigmund Freud

I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too. — Caitlin Moran

My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end. — Ruta Sepetys

None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia ... have any power except over the people who choose to use them. — G.K. Chesterton