Brain Bursting Quotes

#1. Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.

Tommy Chong

#2. We've never performed the song live outside of recording it in the studio. That was a dream come true because Whitney, she's an icon and she's been one of my main mentors in this business.

Deborah Cox

#3. Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Joseph Addison

#4. I'm a big proponent of monogamous relationships regardless of sexuality, and I'm proud of how the nation is steering toward that.

Neil Patrick Harris

#5. You need to be able to climb into a narrative and zip it up under your chin. You need to be able to see through the eyes of the hero, smell what he's smelling, hear what he's hearing.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#6. Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

James Barrett Reston

#7. It is an axiom of political science in the United States that the sole means of neutralizing the effects of newspapers is to multiply their number.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#9. Imagination was condemned to make something of things.

Glen Duncan

#10. Something within me is waking from long sleep, and I want to live and move again. Some zest is returning to me, some immense gratefulness for those who love me, some strong wish to love them also. I am full of thanks for life. I have not told myself to be thankful. I am just so.

Alan Paton

#11. I never met a word I didn't love

Gail Carson Levine

#12. There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined. I feel like this is an important idea, one of those ideas that your brain must wrap itself around slowly, the way pythons eat ...

John Green

#13. Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

Laurence Overmire

#14. I practice yoga even when my schedule doesn't allow me to teach. I've been practicing for 17 years, since before it became hip.

Brenda Strong

#15. The witness' manner not only affects whether the testimony is believed; it determines whether it was even heard. When was the last time you tuned out someone that you did not like, or found yourself in a mental haze during a monotonous monologue?

Steven H. Goldberg

#16. What happened?" I asked, squinting at his face.
Cole glanced at Max. "I wanted to jump in after you. Max disagreed with the appropriateness of that reaction. And then his face ran into my fist.

Brodi Ashton

#17. I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.

Gertrude Atherton