Top 100 Brewster Quotes
#1. Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect.
Karen Witemeyer
#2. I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. (Brewster 1860, p. 331)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#3. If you're going to be stupid, at least be smart about it. (Eric Brewster's mother)
Eric Brewster
#4. I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
Nadine Velazquez
#5. In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.
Kathryn Lasky
#6. Unlike those other painters, Brewster hadn't resorted to indirect gazes or chiaroscuro to communicate the silence of his world. The faces were well-lit and frontal, and yet they were quiet.
Teju Cole
#7. 'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money? Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category.
Travie McCoy
#8. As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.
Devin Kelley
#9. It is romantic, yes,' agreed Hercule Poirot. 'It is peaceful. The sun shines. The sea is blue. But you forget, Miss Brewster, there is evil everywhere under the sun'.
Agatha Christie
#10. I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.
Jordana Brewster
#11. I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.'
Pete Wentz
#12. With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#13. I had a stalker who was extremely violent. He broke into the studio with knives and I was locked in a bathroom.
Paget Brewster
#14. Even now that I'm married and 28, my room's still intact the way it was when I went to high school.
Jordana Brewster
#15. Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.
Brewster Kahle
#16. There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.
Jordana Brewster
#17. There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
Paget Brewster
#18. What I love about New York is that everyone is in their own world. It's the opposite of L.A. - there, everyone is looking outside of themselves to see who's next to them. What's great about New York is that you get to be anonymous.
Jordana Brewster
#19. When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.
Jordana Brewster
#21. We didn't have to go looking for problems.
Mark Soluka
#22. I'm 43 now. I've reached the point where I really can't care what anyone thinks. Of course, I do. I'm an actress. I'm totally insecure, but I'm trying to stick to my guns about what is important to me, and it doesn't matter what anyone thinks I should or shouldn't do.
Paget Brewster
#23. I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.
Jordana Brewster
#25. People come over, and we watch things like 'The Paul Lynde Halloween Special.' I have a hot tub. Everybody puts on a bathing suit and we splash around.
Paget Brewster
#27. I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
Paget Brewster
#29. I had to take driving lessons in New York, which were really weird because it's not the safest thing in the world.
Jordana Brewster
#30. The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable
Brewster Kahle
#31. I've always been kind of picky because I've always been interested in lots of different things. I chose to take three years off and go to school, and that helped keep me sane. Hollywood can make you crazy, if all you're thinking about is your next job.
Jordana Brewster
#32. People spend so much time in their cars, and it's a legal way to have fun by speeding a little bit or testing yourself a little bit, and you get to invest in your car. For some people, it becomes their baby.
Jordana Brewster
#33. Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#34. I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.
Jordana Brewster
#35. I think that unless you grew up in New York or Chicago or Los Angeles, you're sheltered.
Jordana Brewster
#36. Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.
David Brewster
#37. Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age.
William Brewster
#38. You need the audience to become invested in the characters and in order to become invested, they need to identify with the characters ... and that's why the characters need to be real.
Jordana Brewster
#39. Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#40. I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.
Jordana Brewster
#41. True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want.
Paget Brewster
#42. Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.
David Brewster
#44. people called it soul mates. Whatever the case, those two were destined for one another.
Tich Brewster
#45. The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#46. Oh, my dating skills are the worst. No, I pick the wrong men; it's amazing. I am awful, the worst dater.
Paget Brewster
#47. Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus Your name holds everything I need.
Lincoln Brewster
#48. I like having a routine, because everything else ... is so unpredictable.
Jordana Brewster
#49. Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.
David Brewster
#50. Parking is a nightmare for me ... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.
Jordana Brewster
#51. Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.
Jordana Brewster
#52. The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#53. Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.
Jordana Brewster
#54. I wanted to hurt in a way I understood.
Mark Soluka
#56. In the morning on Sunday, a drum is sounded at about 8 o'clock.
William Brewster
#57. While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#58. Wouldn't it be great if you could put all the published works online? The Internet Archive is trying to become useful as a modern-day digital library.
Brewster Kahle
#59. I only remember fighting Ozzy O'Dell once. It was back in second grade. He threw these weird windmill-like punches, which was probably an early sign that the swim team was in his future.
Neal Shusterman
#60. I'm not a super-actorly actor, my-body-is-an-instrument type of person, but I do want to do fun, exciting, interesting things. I have a 2001 PT Cruiser. I saved my money so I can take my time and choose something that I think is great, and that's what I'm waiting for.
Paget Brewster
#61. Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast.
Chauncey Brewster Tinker
#62. At school, I basically wear one pair of jeans and sneakers for months on end.
Jordana Brewster
#63. Oscar night is a ridiculous night where you go to these parties and you see everyone that you've ever wanted to work with and admire.
Jordana Brewster
#64. It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By dint of our mutual dependence, your influence is amplified by our power. Our power is made more responsible and more effective by your influence.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#65. If you want to solve hard problems, have hard problems.
Brewster Kahle
#66. This (scanning project) is our chance to one-up the Greeks! It is really possible with the technology of today, not tomorrow. We can provide all the works of humankind to all the people of the world. It will be an achievement remembered for all time, like putting a man on the moon.
Brewster Kahle
#68. You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#69. Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn't seem so dangerous at the time.
Mark Slouka
#70. I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps.
Jordana Brewster
#71. I'm like this wiry freak they pulled out of a bar two months ago and said, 'Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.'
Paget Brewster
#72. The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#73. If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
Paget Brewster
#74. I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.
William Brewster
#75. I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.
Jordana Brewster
#76. Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a ... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
Jordana Brewster
#77. I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
Paget Brewster
#78. There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#79. My background really comes from geekdom and the idea of building a smart machine. If we're going to build a smart machine, let's have it read good books.
Brewster Kahle
#80. A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.
David Brewster
#81. In order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him.
Brewster Ghiselin
#82. I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.
Jordana Brewster
#83. If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.
Paget Brewster
#84. How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.
Brewster Kahle
#85. I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.
Jordana Brewster
#86. I love working out, but I need my brain to be someplace else as my body does the work.
Jordana Brewster
#87. I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.
Paget Brewster
#89. I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.
Paget Brewster
#90. When I was asked to leave, I left ... Then they made me come back. I did, and I decided to enjoy it. It was one year. I care about everyone at 'Criminal Minds' but I knew, in my heart, I had left.
Paget Brewster
#91. It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#92. I like working consistently. I like working for four months at a time, which is why cable was so attractive. You work for four months, and then you get to do something else, whether it's doing a movie or just being at home with your husband and eventually having a family.
Jordana Brewster
#93. There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#94. Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.
Tom Brewster
#95. Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.
David Brewster
#96. Paul [Walker]'s kindness was pure. He never asked for credit of glory. He was just a really good guy.
Jordana Brewster
#98. The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#99. When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.
Paget Brewster
#100. Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
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