Top 100 Brenda's Quotes
#1. Brenda's pouting voice broke in, Your girl friend's dead, and Momma thought you was dead, too.
Katherine Paterson
#2. Has it ever occurred to you that you might be delusional?'
That's what the psychiatrist said, but I think he's wrong. There's an evil flying pizza out there, and it's got Brenda's name on it.
Janet Evanovich
#3. She stopped when she saw the student Jason bowing his head with his eyes closed. "Jason, what are you doing?" He popped his gum, "I'm praying over Ms. Brenda's naps.
Emmanuel Sullivan
#4. Okay, Shane," Agnes said as Brenda's clock gonged midnight. "I got Joey in the kitchen, a cop in the front hall, a dead body in the basement, and you in my bedroom. Where do you want to start?
Jennifer Crusie
#5. Even more reason to do what the note says," Thomas said. Brenda's face showed doubt. "I really think we should
James Dashner
#6. Being a background singer is one thing, but being on stage as the star is something else again. When you walk out there with all those people staring at you, it's like you're naked to the world. And I hate being criticized.
Brenda Russell
#7. information, listening to every word with rapt attention. Now that she had established herself in the duke's household, the last thing
Brenda Novak
#9. The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
Brenda Blethyn
#10. You'll never know if it's possible, unless you try it.
Brenda Lee
#11. Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.
Brenda Holloway
#12. Georgia Author Brenda Sutton Rose captures some of the conflicted and captivating characters of a rapidly changing South.
Janisse Ray
#13. Although I wasn't there to bear witness, I imagine Lot's wife scanned the masses for her children. Perhaps she sought out the curves of their mouths and the shapes of their faces, trying to memorize her children, grown now. She looked back as I and any strong, loving mother would have done.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#14. A bitch is a bitch. I think that's inscribed in hieroglyphics on a pyramid somewhere. And hotness does not make up for it.
Brenda Rothert
#15. Admitting your fears to yourself is the first step in cleansing them from your body. And it's the hardest part.
Brenda Rothert
#16. Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.
Brenda Blethyn
#17. I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it's a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged.
Brenda Strong
#18. There's an integrity and a strength to women who have been raised in rough country.
Brenda Strong
#19. I am angry about the world's conditions for black people.
Brenda Fassie
#20. Love, you are the dark cut into memory.
Small, distant, as the sparrow's eye.
Brenda Sieczkowski
#21. We pray God would do it our way; we should pray we would do it God's way!
Brenda M. McGraw
#22. I've always been insecure about my singing. That's why I've focused so much on my songwriting.
Brenda Russell
#23. words you might utter. You must feel the same or you wouldn't have broken this news to me in a letter. Now it's clear why you have not dropped by the apartment for the last month. I should be upset with you for shutting us out.
Brenda Whiteside
#24. You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.
Brenda De Banzie
#25. find forgiveness for other people's actions as much as our own.
Brenda Rothert
#26. To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
Brenda Song
#27. The caress of Kira's eyes seared into Alec's flesh as he walked over to the bed. His skin tingled with heat wherever her eyes seemed to rest but he was determined to take this night slow ... even if it killed him and it just might.
Brenda Cothern
#28. If you are lost, I will find you. If you are in danger, I will protect you," he said seriously. "It's what a gentleman does, Elysse."
~Alexi de Warenne to Elysse O'Neil
Brenda Joyce
#29. Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Brenda Holloway
#30. Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.
Brenda Lee
#31. I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.
Brenda Romero
#32. I've been melted into something
too easy to spill. I make more
and more of myself in order
to make more and more of the baby.
He takes it, this making. And somehow
he's made more of me, too.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#33. I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.
Brenda Brathwaite
#34. Because I believe, even in times of hardship, there's something positive to salvage, even if we have to sift, piece by tattered piece, through the scraps of our trials to find it.
Brenda J. Otto
#35. It's a real leveller, you know, to do theatre at least once every two years.
Brenda Blethyn
#36. I didn't feel like I was stealing someone's husband; I felt like they were already apart.
Brenda Perlin
#37. She's strong," he told his mom. "She'll be fine."
"Even strong people need help." Wilma said it with soft but firm tones that he couldn't argue with.
Brenda Minton
#38. My mother's dress bears the stains of her life:
blueberries, blood, bleach,
and breast milk;
She cradles in her arms a lifetime
of love and sorrow;
Its brilliance nearly blinds me.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#39. You love me?"
"Of course I do." My shoulders dropped. "I knew it the day I wanted to punch that idiot's face when he had his hands all over you.
Brenda Pandos
#40. I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
Brenda Lee
#41. Yeah, but I want to take a look at your little peashooter. It's kinda cute."
"It's a gun," Brenda said.
Lula pulled her Glock out of her bag and aimed it at Brenda. "Bitch, this is a gun. It could put a hole in you big enough to drive a truck through.
Janet Evanovich
#42. And if you're in trouble, say, 'It's hot in here.'
When we hear those words from either of you, we're busting inside the place. So for fuck's sake, don't say that just because it's warm in his house.
Brenda Rothert
#43. It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.
Brenda Russell
#45. That's easy; shape shifting ability." His blue eyes twinkled
Brenda Pandos
#47. Jasmine felt a sense of power in cooking. It was she who controlled the ingredients, she who controlled the menus, and she who controlled the fragrances that filled her home.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#48. Also, and this is something I feel passionate about, I simply never call children "kids." Baby goats are kids, not children! I know it may seem silly to some, but it's something I feel most strongly. If we respect little people, then they in turn will grow up to respect others.
Brenda Ashford
#49. The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
Brenda Blethyn
#50. If you are never satisfied with what you write, that is a good sign. It means that your vision can see so far that it's hard to come up to it. Again I say - the only unfortunate people are the glib ones, immediately satisfied with their work. To them, the ocean is only knee-deep.
Brenda Ueland
#51. God's guiding hand, the guiding Voice, resting lightly upon us is best felt and heard when we are silent and still.
Brenda Shoshanna
#52. What's the detector?" Thomas asked. "It detects stuff," Brenda replied curtly. Thomas wrinkled his face at her.
James Dashner
#53. Sometimes, people have a tendency not to notice someone who's always there, even if that person's the best thing for them.
Brenda Jackson
#54. To be in your child's happy memories tomorrow, you must be in his life today.
Brenda Nixon
#55. [S]ometimes people make a mistake for so long that it starts to feel like it's not a mistake at all. And then one day, you tell yourself it's for the best.
Brenda Woods
#56. You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.
Brenda Ueland
#57. Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.
Rick Derringer
#59. I watched him, mesmerized. The ink of his tattoos bespoke the path he'd walked to get to me. A skull and crossbones on his hip. His daughter's initial on one side of his chest and the words 'Sine metu' on the other. I'd learned Latin in college and I knew it meant 'without fear'.
Brenda Rothert
#60. You ever want me to show you what it's like to have a man in your bed, you know where to find me.
Brenda Novak
#61. At 2:00 sharp on the afternoon of his internment, with his body resting in a casket in the front room of his home, the pallbearers--all bridge players--stuck a deck of cards in Mr. Hampton's cold hands, shut the lid over his head, and played bridge.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#62. Great seaweed! She thought. What possessed me to bite that poor merman's arm? Gahhh. One kiss and I'm a - a flesh-eating monster? Seriously?
Brenda Pandos
#63. I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.
Brenda Fassie
#64. He looked at the menu dreamily. 'God, it's good to be eating in France again.'
'It's good to be eating again,' said Brenda.
'But it's nice to resume the habit in France.'
'That's true of so many habits.
Jack Iams
#65. The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.
Brenda Laurel
#66. learn pretty damn fast that everything else is smoke and mirrors. Fame. Money. Success. You realize that life is fleeting and family's what it's all about. It's the only thing that matters.
Brenda Novak
#67. If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
Brenda Shoshanna
#68. Prayers and wishes should always be good, but we all think bad thoughts when our feelings get hurt. It's human, V." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#69. Resentment is often a woman's inner signal that she has been ignoring an important God-given responsibility - that of making choices.
Brenda Waggoner
#70. They cannot understand that the figure of a laborer - some furrows in a plowed field, a bit of sand, sea and sky - are serious objects, so difficult but at the same time so beautiful, that it is indeed worth while to devote one's life to the task of expressing the poetry hidden in them.
Brenda Ueland
#71. Life is full of surprises" she said softly."It's hardly ever black and white.
Brenda Joyce
#72. You cannot see a person's heart, belief or motive unless it identifies itself with an action.
Brenda Johnson Padgitt
#73. False hope," she said. "Guess that's better then no hope at all.
James Dashner
#74. heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces - but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God's tender mercies. Love, Phoenix
Brenda Novak
#75. You done decided you want to go to the dance yet Brenda?" "Didn't I tell you that dances was lame?" "What's lame about them?" "I like mature niggas." "I'm not a nigga." "What are you?" "An African American." "Well I don't like African Americans. I like niggas.
Vincent Morris
#76. Sounds to me like you're praying Violet, not wishing. When we wish, it's usually for something frivolous...Something not serious. Like what you want for your birthday. Prayers are for more serious things." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#77. I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.
Brenda Laurel
#78. I blush so easily. Even when I'm not embarrassed, I blush. It's so embarrassing.
Brenda Hodnett
#79. Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it
- he's a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting.
Brenda Joyce
#80. When life gives you a lemon, it's time for a Cowgirl's Prayer." This was one of her favorite alcoholic concoctions of tequila, lime juice and lemonade.
Brenda Bevan Remmes
#81. Rick's memory turned to fantasy as his mind took a different path than what reality had already turned into history.
Brenda Cothern
#82. Maybe, like Bibi's mashed potatoes, life has special ingredients, too - times that make it more special - stuff that gives it more zing" -Violet
Brenda Woods
#83. You can write anything you want to,
a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.
Brenda Ueland
#84. It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
Brenda Blethyn
#85. My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.
Brenda Song
#86. pushing her long, dark hair out of her face. "But what's the point? If you're into him enough to sleep with him, why would
Brenda Rothert
#88. It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
Brenda Ueland
#89. I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.
Brenda Fassie
#90. No matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!
Brenda Jackson
#91. Would I like this boy?"
I bit my lip to keep from smiling. "Yeah. I think so. He's nice."
"So I imagine you'll need a dress?"
"Yeah, probably."
"And I'll need a gun."
"Dad!
Brenda Pandos
#92. Secret, smug believers! God never gives you
more than you can bear, they like to say, as if
the strong should be punished for their strength:
We can bear it. So we got it.
But what about my baby? How weak does
a newborn have to be to escape God's burdens?
Brenda Shaughnessy
#93. I could go to a dozen houses, scrape away the dirt, and find his footprints, but my own prints evaporated before I ever looked back.
Brenda Sutton Rose
#94. When we are able to receive life's challenges as koans rather than problems, they become interesting and exciting, rather than ponderous and depressing.
Brenda Shoshanna
#95. When Mom picked me up a little after nine, I expected her to rave about my make-over. Instead, I got a lecture about how girls my age were trying to grow up too quickly and make-up should enhance one's natural beauty. Crushed, I remained silent the entire way home.
Brenda Pandos
#96. Even when you are striving, stumbling and struggling, it's exhilarating if you sense you are growing.
Brenda Poinsett
#97. You are not broken. You break again
and again because
that's what breaking means.
To be whole.
Brenda Shaughnessy
#98. I've followed Brenda Bowen as she's moved from Henry Holt to Scholastic to Simon and Schuster to Hyperion and to HarperCollins. I have complete confidence that Brenda always knows the right questions to ask. I'm not sure another editor would be able to do that.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#99. Is Shaun Mason activating security profile Pardy. Something's wrong with Brenda, we're out of Mister Pibb, and hunting season's here. Now let's go to Hollywood.
Mira Grant
#100. So, you want to see the house?" he asked, standing up. "Sure. Any cool futuristic gizmos you can show me? Food replicators or a holodeck or something?" "Funny. It's not Star Trek.
Brenda Hiatt
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