Shortish Brown Quotes & Sayings

Hunger was constitutional with him,
women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need
until he went to pieces.
The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed
their piecedom but kept very quietly on
among the chaos. — John Berryman

You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems. — Mark Victor Hansen

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ... — Alexander Pushkin

I get some female attention from fans, but mostly it's people asking for advice about a situation with their ex or their boyfriend, so it's not all love letters and fan mail! — Matthew Hussey

The minute a Wall Street firm purchases your debt, your bank no longer has it on its financial statement, which then allows the bank to look for more credit card customers. That's one reason why you get so many credit card offers. — Robert Kiyosaki

Emilia stared at me for three or four more seconds, then gave up on pumping me for information. "We should go," she decided with the force of a monarch declaring law. "I have Latin first period. The Aeneid waits for no man. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out. — Spike Jonze

When I think about myself at 15, I can't relate to myself at all. I thought I knew everything. — Milla Jovovich

Always I find when I begin to write there is one character who obstinately will not come alive ... He never does the unexpected thing, he never surprises me, he never takes charge. Every other character helps, he only hinders. And yet one cannot do without him. I can imagine a God feeling in just that way about some of us. The saints, one would suppose, in a sense create themselves. They come alive. They are capable of the surprising act or word. The stand outside the plot, unconditioned by it. But we have to be pushed around. We have the obstinancy of non-existence. We are inextricably bound to the plot, and wearily God forces us, here and there, according to his intention, characters without poetry, without free will, whose only importance is that somewhere, at some time, we help to furnish the scene in which a living character moves and speaks, perhaps the saints with the opportunities for their free will. — Graham Greene

Perfection is the child of time. — Joseph Hall

If you don't get spending under control, eventually you're going to have a big tax increase. — Pat Toomey

It was beautiful Eric, who desired me, who was hungry for me, in a world that often let me know it could do very well without me. — Charlaine Harris

What holds attention determines action. — William James