Brainy Birthday Quotes

#1. As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

Emily Watson

#2. Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense;
Truth is apt to be neither.

Christmas Humphreys

#3. The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

Richard Pascale

#4. Fitz: How bad is it?
Nighteyes: Mind your own business.
Fitz: You ARE my business.
Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn't loosen it.
Fitz: I'm not sure about THAT.

Robin Hobb

#5. You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.

Connie Brockway

#6. He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

Colum McCann

#7. I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Junot Diaz

#8. He's very pretty. For a human."
"He's very broken," said Magnus. "Like a lovely vase that someone has smashed. Only luck and skill can put it back together the way it was before.

Cassandra Clare

#9. The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems more designed to make people stumble than to be walked upon.

Franz Kafka

#10. When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge
one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

Elie Wiesel