Brass Tacks Quotes

#1. You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people killing each other since they figured out how, that's all. Give them pretty names and numbers, but it's all the same to the worms.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#2. I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

D.H. Lawrence

#3. Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Theodore Levitt

#4. Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

T. S. Eliot

#5. What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

John Cage

#6. I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Concha Buika

#7. If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Maybe that's what love is: hoping that one day things will be better.

Joel Dicker

#9. Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.

William Arthur Ward

#10. I will run against anybody.

Usain Bolt

#11. But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.

Lara Flynn Boyle

#12. You know what this area needs? he says to no one in particular. A thirty-six floor gothic skyscraper.

Eric Boyd

#13. I'm not saying these flying discs don't really exist, but nobody living in Kansas City has seen them and that's a dry state.

Jack Paar

#14. PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

Ambrose Bierce

#15. Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

Graham Nash

#16. The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped.

Yoko Ono

#17. So that left me. To save my hatchlings and my underground, even if I couldn't be there anymore.

Julie Kagawa

#18. The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.

Adam Gopnik