Brentwood Quotes

#1. In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.

Joan Didion

#2. Their suburbia house in Brentwood was how she referred to the house when we bought it, a twelve-year-old establishing that it was not her decision, not her taste, a child claiming the distance all children imagine themselves to need.

Joan Didion

#3. Most men - not just the men in Brentwood - are scared of powerful women with brains. There's something in a man that makes him want to have power over a woman - whether it's in the bedroom or because they earn more money. It boosts their egos.

Jodie Marsh

#4. I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

Adam Shankman

#5. My friends adore 'TOWIE' - the TV documentary series, 'The Only Way is Essex.' They like it, I'm afraid, for the most unworthy of reasons: class mockery. They tune in to wonder in a 'can you believe those people?' way at the natives of Brentwood and Buckhurst Hill.

Peter York

#6. The liberals in my neighbourhood wouldn't give away Brentwood to the Palestinians, but they want to give away Tel Aviv.

David Mamet

#7. The Punkwat twins! Brentwood is the world's smallest giant, whilst his brother, Elwood, is the largest midget in the world. They baffle science!

W.C. Fields

#8. When the right person does the wrong thing, it's the right thing.

Susan Sontag

#9. We can achieve more in a moment of compassion than in an hour of anger.

Sam Owen

#10. Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

Cheryl Strayed

#11. Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

Umberto Guidoni

#12. But sometimes in my reading I would discover new insights or have seemingly profound thoughts that would change my way of thinking.

Amy Harmon

#13. Half of the population is behind bars and the other half is guarding them,' Russians have said of their country since the times of Stalin.

Masha Gessen

#14. United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

Patrick Henry

#15. An' that cold hand o' wind was Old Georgie's hand, yay, the devil what was standin' there wavin' a crookit spoon.

David Mitchell

#16. Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Ben Okri

#17. Jimmy Stewart could have been a good golfer, but he speaks so slowly that by the time he yells 'Fore!' the guy he's hit is already in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

Bob Hope

#18. An investment is tax inefficient if it relies heavily on investment income, instead of its price movement.

Michael Brentwood

#19. The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

Jacques Maritain

#20. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside.

Alan Moore

#21. Music is pretty much all I do.

Daron Malakian