Braying Quotes

#1. One pattern to help yourself fight the mad dash for the mirage of being done is to think of a good day's work. Look at the progress of the day towards the end and ask yourself: 'Have I done a good day's work?'

David Heinemeier Hansson

#2. He did not enjoy speaking about women with other men, a practice which, in his estimation, was always clownish and braying.

Eleanor Catton

#3. They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.

Tim Allen

#4. The sweet smell of the South, of Camellias and Azaleas, clings to Beaufort's ancient and historic buildings.

Walter Cronkite

#5. I'M SCURRYING AROUND THE HOUSE, TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT I should pack (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) and what I should leave behind (cloth diapers, knitted booties, cotton jumpers?) when I'm stopped in my tracks by the lowing and braying of the animals in the barn.

Megan McCafferty

#6. In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shite fundamentalists.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. Braying of arrogant brass, whimper of querulous reeds.

William Watson

#8. Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

#9. and braying multitudes of wild asses. The

Alfred W. Crosby

#10. If we remain wedded to the way education is currently provided we cannot imagine other ways. We need some imagination, some fantasy, some new ways of thinking - some magic in fact.

Hedley Beare

#11. With the sun rising on the distant sea horizon, she could almost forget the braying of the donkeys.

Alexandra Brenton

#12. There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?

Roger L'Estrange

#13. Cuddles screamed. It wasn't a braying noise, it was an ear-slapping shriek of pure donkey outrage, like someone got hold of a foghorn and tried to strangle it.

Ilona Andrews

#14. I really believe in a oneness. So if I'm looking at somebody else, it's not in a narcissistic way, but you're kind of seeing yourself.

Toni Collette

#15. The voice of a donkey braying in the neighbouring meadow seemed like the mocking laughter of demons.

P.G. Wodehouse

#16. A good man is a whole lot more satisfying than a thermal blanket and a vibrator."
"Grams! I can't believe you just said that!"
Her grandmother replied with a win. "I may be old, sweetheart, but I'm not dead yet.

Victoria Vane

#17. You're a beautiful and wonderful and sensual and strong golden fawn, she says, followed by That was supposed to say "my best friend," but my phone...

Emily Henry

#18. Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.

Philip Greenspun

#19. Fran? Frances Hill, you stop that right now! What the devil's got into you? Ada, you should be ashamed! Braying like a mule, you are! And you, Mattie Gokey ... would you like to tell me what could possibly be so funny?

Jennifer Donnelly

#20. If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

Hannu Rajaniemi

#21. You have to stop listening in categories. The music is either good or it's bad.

Duke Ellington

#22. Shouldn't you know what love's like, before you begin renouncin' it
George Cooper

Tamora Pierce

#23. Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

Edward Hall

#24. In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Edward Abbey

#25. A fortune-teller means a braggart anyway. Don't you know that a donkey can't do but braying, a wolf can't do but howling, a horse can't do but neighing, and a fortune-teller can't do but telling lies?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read.

Standing Bear

#27. The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.

Thomas Carlyle

#28. Arch, giggling women and braying young men who'd been at the back of the line when the chins were handed out.

Terry Pratchett

#29. At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable.

Gary Weiss