Brain Pickings Mary Quotes

#1. My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

Jason Gann

#2. Success comes from believing in you when no one believes in you.

Robin Sharma

#3. As they say: A baking man will grasp at a hangman. Whoever gets the job will be dragged into the heat, forced to wear a massive pair of iron shoes, and frogmarched across the minefield at gunpoint.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#4. We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

Tobsha Learner

#5. Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Joseph Addison

#6. 'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

Catherine Tate

#7. They believe in teachers unions. We believe in teachers.

Chris Christie

#8. The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

John Wycliffe

#9. Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.

Caitlin Moran

#10. Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking.

Bill Vaughan