Brackett Quotes

#1. We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus.

Rex Ryan

#2. Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Anna C. Brackett

#3. There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are in possession.

Anna Brackett

#4. All real freedom springs from necessity, for it can be gained only through the exercise of the individual will, and that will can be roused to energetic action only by the force of necessity acting upon it from the outside to spur it to effort.

Anna C. Brackett

#5. Like men who have failed together, they wanted nothing more than to never see each other again.

Karan Mahajan

#6. We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

Anna Brackett

#7. David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?

Leigh Brackett

#8. Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not. For my ally is the Force. And a powerful allyit is.

Leigh Brackett

#9. No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two
hundred buildings to the square mile, shall be built or permitted to exist
anywhere in the United States of America.

Leigh Brackett

#10. Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.

Anna Brackett

#11. If you're into what you're playing, that's the most important thing.

James Hetfield

#12. And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known by
her shoes and her gloves.

Virginia Woolf

#13. Witchcraft to the ignorant, ... Simple science to the learned.

Leigh Brackett

#14. He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

Anna C. Brackett

#15. Whether it was the stimulus of the radio, or simply that he was growing up, or both, he saw everything about him in a new way, as though he had managed to get a little distance off so that his sight wasn't blurred by being too close.

Leigh Brackett

#16. We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties.

Anna C. Brackett

#17. The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

Anna C. Brackett

#18. For poetry and I are one
To separate is to decapitate
For my poetry is forever.

Kerry D. Brackett

#19. You can't destroy knowledge. You can stamp it under and burn it up and forbid it to be, but somewhere it will survive.

Leigh Brackett

#20. A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

Leigh Brackett

#21. Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion - that's Plot.

Leigh Brackett

#22. There is only one principle, and this is Good. There is no principle of evil. If there were a principle of evil, evil would be positive and not negative, and therefore could never be overcome, because it would be eternal and unchanging.

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#23. Screenwriting is still a challenge for me. It's more technical than creative. You have to be a very good journeyman plumber and put the proper parts together. Then, if you can still inject a little bit of something worthwhile, you have done as much as can be expected.

Leigh Brackett

#24. The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.

Leigh Brackett

#25. I think that we live in a moment in time where people have a lot of information about a lot of people kind of instantly, but it's all sort of surface information and it doesn't really mean anything.

Jon Hamm

#26. There is no pride when it comes to survival, only determination.

Anthony Liccione

#27. Writing a film is like building a brick wall. You have a plan, and you have the blocks. Then, somebody says, 'I think we'll take this stone out of here and put it over there. And while we're at it, let's make this stone red and that stone green.'

Leigh Brackett

#28. (I)f you're not honest with yourself, life will never be honest with you.

Leigh Brackett

#29. If you read only the best, you will have no need of reading the other books, because the latter are nothing but a rehash of the best and the oldest. To read Shakespeare, Plato, Dante, Milton, Spenser, Chaucer, and their compeers in prose, is to read in condensed form what all others have diluted.

Anna Brackett

#30. Surrender is a perfectly acceptable alternative in extreme circumstances.

Leigh Brackett

#31. When I write a novel, I am God at my own typewriter, and there is nobody in between. But when I write a screenplay, it must be a compromise because there are so many elements which are outside the writer's province.

Leigh Brackett

#32. Lots of old guys wore beige trench coats and those flat caps that made them look like boys who sold newspapers a hundred years ago.

A.J. Cattapan

#33. If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

David Lloyd-Jones

#34. My existence was as unstable as a stream, changing in every way; but the moth was like a piece of stone, changing not at all.

Arthur Golden

#35. Len Colter sat in the shade under the wall of the horse barn, eating pone and sweet butter and contemplating a sin.

Leigh Brackett

#36. There's never been an act done since the beginning, from a kid stealing candy to a dictator committing genocide, that the person doing it didn't think he was fully justified. That's a mental trick called rationalizing, and it's done the human race more harm than anything else you can name.

Leigh Brackett