Brady Smith Quotes

#1. Asking is the first level of prayer.

Sunday Adelaja

#2. Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

Mason Cooley

#3. And what is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time.

William Kent Krueger

#4. Nothing. It's just that most smart people are perfect shits.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.

Romare Bearden

#6. One of the pilots asked Mr. Smith if he liked his business, and Mr. Smith said, "Sure. Sure I like it. It's nice being the only sound nut in a hatful of cracked ones." ---Stewardess to Cecelia Brady

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. The only good deed I'll be doing tonight is for the angels."
"The angels?"
"Haven't you heard? Every time I make you come, an angel gets his wings."
Brady dropped his smoky gaze to Gage's mouth for a beat. "We really need to leave. Now.

Kate Meader

#8. The only way to free yourself from the collective programming that we experience as children and that indeed continues every day beyond that into adulthood is to ask for guidance about what is right for you.

Catherine Carrigan

#9. Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

Bernard Malamud

#10. It's more common for people to get fire tattoos. Symbols of passion, transformation, change. But I wanted smoke because it's what remains. After the fire, after everything is destroyed, you're left with smoke and ash. You've gotta make somethin' out of it.

Kate Meader

#11. Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

Aesop

#12. The notion of whether there would be some kind of organization in this potluck deal? Shouldn't somebody get on the phone and call the guest list? What if they ended up with too many deviled eggs?
'There is no such thing as too many deviled eggs,' said Cynthia.

Jan Karon

#13. Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#14. Trying's good. Trying's sexy," Gage murmured against Brady's ear. "Now try telling me what you need.

Kate Meader

#15. & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

Amiri Baraka

#16. British would use every means from persuasion to bribery in Morocco and when those failed the wives of British diplomats knew what they had to do to further Britain's interests.

Margaret MacMillan

#17. In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade

#18. The art of opposition and of revolution is to unsettle established customs, sounding them even to their source, to point out their want of authority and justice.

Blaise Pascal

#19. I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do listen. I have a lot of songs I've wanted to re-record just because of how advanced technology is and the different instrument sounds that I'm more experienced with.

Andrae Crouch