Briand Johns Quotes

#1. When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

Laozi

#2. I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

Samuel Johnson

#3. What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Elbert Hubbard

#4. I maintain myself on the puppet drug of personal technology. Every touch of a button brings the neural rush of finding something I never knew and never needed to know until it appears at my anxious fingertips, where it remains for a shaky second before disappearing forever. My

Don DeLillo

#5. A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish them for being what he has made them, may be omnipotent and various other things, but he is not what the English language has always intended by the adjective holy.

John Stuart Mill

#6. For me, writing plays is far more an act of the mind than of the emotions. It's a very different kind of impulse than fiction writing.

Jim Grimsley

#7. I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.

Ethel Waters

#8. Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

John Lanchester

#9. I consider myself somewhat spiritual, but not practicing.

J. C. Chandor

#10. Do you know how I would call the nature of the present economic conditions? I would call it cannibalistic. That's what it is! They are nourishing their greed on the quivering flesh and the warm blood of the people - nothing else.

Joseph Conrad

#11. The very word 'Anfield' means more to me than I can describe.

Bill Shankly

#12. It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#13. You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.

Flower A. Newhouse

#14. What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this bubble of showbiz and you only know people who make movies, you don't really have an understanding of the world outside.

Emily Browning

#15. Mozart's music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.

E.T.A. Hoffmann