Brainbox Online Quotes

#1. If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

Rob Brydon

#2. He was down and out, the Catholics took him in, and before he knew it, he had faith. So it was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.

Milan Kundera

#3. Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.

Barbara Pym

#4. I was wondering what kind of giant would come, but you're just some tail-coated Romeo.

Yana Toboso

#5. I swear I am happy. I have realized that the only happiness in this world is to observe, to spy, to watch, to scrutinize oneself and others, to be nothing but a big, slightly vitreous, somewhat bloodshot, unblinking eye. I swear that this is happiness.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. There are a great many aspects to feline life, but the three most important - the Holy Trinity, if you will - are eating, sleeping and washing.

Jem Vanston

#7. When I went to Africa I think that was when I really found a way to deal with what I had recently discovered; in two-dimensional terms, at least.

Martin Puryear

#8. There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

Mikhail Bulgakov