Brank Quotes

#1. The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.

Alice Morse Earle

#2. When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.

Josephine Humphreys

#3. How come it rains every Hall of Fame weekend? They need to move it to a different weekend.

Yogi Berra

#4. I make shoes for white suburban kids, not the poor black kids. That would be like opening a restaurant for people without stomachs.

Michael Jordan

#5. My ideal weight is 205, actually.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#6. Settle for nothing
less than the
object of your
desire.

Alma Luz Villanueva

#7. how to wear a red cord tied around my left wrist to keep away the ones who only saw you as a single step, rather than a destination.

Jodi Picoult

#8. It is not often," said the second of the three, addressing Monsieur Defarge, "that many of these miserable beasts know the taste of wine, or of anything but black bread and death. Is it not so, Jacques?

Charles Dickens

#9. I love being an actor, and I don't want to be a spokesman for anything, I don't want to do anything crazy or fancy like that. I just love playing characters and getting paid for it, and that's what I want to do till the day I die.

Rainn Wilson

#10. Everyone knows what falling in love is like but being in love is what people have lost. That intimacy to be in bed with somebody and just laugh and not hold anybody accountable for what they say.

Mark Polish

#11. Taiwan is a major economy.

William Kirby

#12. The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Henry rested, possessed of many pills
& gin & whiskey. He put up his feet
& switched on Schubert,
His tranquility lasted five minutes.

Jerome W. Berryman

#14. My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

John Slattery