Brassy Quotes

#1. Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

Anne Sexton

#2. I'm usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend.

Annie Parisse

#3. With young people, it's how brassy and flashy can you be. But you get a bit older, it's about how restrained can you be. You have to feel it all, think it all, but you don't have to play it - it's just gotta be there, and if the story's good and the script's good, people will see it.

Robert Taylor

#4. This, it would turn out, is the main thing we had in common: a susceptibility to the brassy escapism of myth.

Steve Almond

#5. The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.

Ted Hughes

#6. I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame.

Ethel Merman

#7. And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.

Brian Mulroney

#8. Deliverance is to the Bible what jazz music is to Mardi Gras: bold, brassy, and everywhere.

Max Lucado

#9. The Gong lived in the Pit. It made a loud, brassy "nnnnnnngggggggggg" that set everyone's teeth on edge. Any deal over 50K per annum, the salesman got to take a whack at it, so that the whole company would know he'd landed a big fish.

Lori Berhon

#10. Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky.
But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Everything that is strong in me has gone into my art work.

Robert Crumb

#12. I'll do what I can to promote the greater good. If you can harm one person to save 1,000, I'm gonna do it every f**king time.

Sean Patrick Flanery

#13. Thus people
so it seems to me
Become good friends from sheer ennui.

Alexander Pushkin

#14. I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

Marilyn Monroe

#15. Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

Thomas Wolfe

#16. She walked to the front door. 'Hello?'
'Hello,' a woman's voice said.
'Are you a Witness?'
'I swear to God I didn't see a thing.

Anne Lamott

#17. Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Julia Cameron

#18. I almost always urge people to write in the first person ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.

William Zinsser

#19. We're talking to every third-party supplier every day of the week, and our traders are talking to them and buying products from them. When we're doing that, we see opportunities which no one else sees.

Ivan Glasenberg

#20. If you punish him for what he sees you practise yourself, he ... will be apt to interpret it the peevishness and arbitrary imperiousness of a father, who, without any ground for it, would deny his son the liberty and pleasure he takes himself.

John Locke

#21. How mad would it actually be to do an 'Avatar' type animation film, but about something mundane like a Winn-Dixie cashier's day at work? That'd be something else, I think.

Diplo

#22. When I do not walk in the clouds I walk as though I were lost.

Antonio Porchia