Widget Brilliant Quotes & Sayings

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me. — Lupita Nyong'o

The two of them holding each other, the tears flowing freely now, as if by never letting go they would never have to say goodbye. — Alexander Gordon Smith

You are being self-pitying."
"I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear."
"I like you better this way."
"Crushed and broken," Gansey said. "Just the way women like 'em. — Maggie Stiefvater

Discussing God is not the best use of our energy. If we touch the Holy Spirit, we touch God not as a concept but as a living reality. In Buddhism, we never talk about nirvana, because nirvana means the extinction of all notions, concepts, and speech. We practice by touching mindfulness in ourselves through sitting meditation, walking meditation, mindful eating, and so on. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. — George Carlin

Before you shoot the messenger, it helps to get the message first. — Abram Gitspof

There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term. — Pat Metheny

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities. — Samuel Johnson

Every flight is a gamble. If we don't smash into a cloud bound hillside, we might be picked off like a defenceless lamb by a lone wolf Messerschmitt with a gaping maw painted on its fuselage. — Kate Lord Brown

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me. — Troian Bellisario

Frances McDormand is my favorite actor. I don't know if that's relevant. But she's a person who plays people. In other words, not everything has to be an over-the-top Broadway musical to get my attention, but it certainly helps. — Julie Klausner

I finally understood - nearly twenty years too late. — Gillian Flynn