Brenock Oconnor Quotes

#1. Styles come and go, design goes on forever: solving communication problems with new tools applied to the same old common sense.

Ivan Chermayeff

#2. Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.

Brene Brown

#3. The better your audience, the more energy you have, and the more energy you have, the better show you do. The better show you do, the more they love it, and the more energy they give back to you.

Gloria Gaynor

#4. It looks as if the NHS will gradually fade away, and we shall go back to a great deal of private medicine.

Ruth Rendell

#5. In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

Robert McKee

#6. Perhaps. But the firstborn of hope is tragedy.

Anne Fortier

#7. All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#8. She left the window - and I said to myself, The lady is dark. She moved forward a few steps - and I said to myself, The lady is young. She approached nearer - and I said to myself (with a sense of surprise which words failed me to express), The lady is ugly!

Wilkie Collins

#9. I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#10. This week, Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized control of the Yemeni government, heretofore pro-American. In September, they overran Sanaa, the capital. On Tuesday, they seized the presidential palace. On Thursday, they forced the president to resign.

Charles Krauthammer

#11. The byproduct of the lifestyle is polluted rivers, greenhouse effect, spouse abuse, televangelists, and serial killers.

Neal Stephenson

#12. My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

Philippe Falardeau

#13. Finn was different.
And he was different because she wanted him in her life in a way she hadn't wanted anyone for a very long time.
Maybe ever.

Jill Shalvis

#14. Ever feel like God is a million miles away? The truth is, he's not. Whatever struggle you're going through, you can rest assured you're not alone. You have God in your corner.

Rick Warren