Broad Brush Quotes

#1. I hate painting with a broad brush, but I think the birther thing, at its root, is racist. The guy was born in Hawaii. A black guy is president. It's cool. Get over it. Just deal with it. There's nothing you could show these birther people that would shut them up.

Henry Rollins

#2. memory has a palette and broad brush.

Colson Whitehead

#3. It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial.

Michael Moritz

#4. I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in entitlements, and Republicans do.

Dave Camp

#5. When you think of the typical Teach For America corps member, soldiers and ex-bankers are probably not the people who come to mind. In fact, there is no such thing as a typical corps member. They can't be neatly pigeonholed or painted with a broad brush.

Wendy Kopp

#6. In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you have to paint with slightly broad brush strokes because you just need to give an audience an idea of who these people might be.

Jack Davenport

#7. I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush.

Howard Dean

#8. Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

George Carlin

#9. I guess we're all guilty at some point of failing to appreciate the small things, because when we use a broad brush to paint our exemplary lives, we splatter ourselves with ignorance.

Danielle Esplin

#10. Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.

Auliq Ice

#11. I think the tendency to paint composers or styles of music with too broad a brush - for example, identifying composers as writers of "simple" or "complex" music - has become increasingly problematic and is almost never productive.

Michael Hersch

#12. Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. We're basically this very young species, only 200,000 years old. We're one of the newcomers, and we're going through the same process that other species go through, which is, how do I keep myself alive while taking care of the place that's going to keep my offspring alive?

Janine Benyus

#14. I'm very shy in a crowd.

Patti LaBelle

#15. Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

Scott Caan

#16. To succeed, with or without money, have deliberate plans to make success out of opportunity. If you are totally dependent on chance, then chances are that you will fail.

Archibald Marwizi

#17. I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood
sex and the dead.

W.B.Yeats

#18. It isn't a case of marriage having been tried and found wanting. In this 20th century world, true marriage is deeply wanted, but largely untried.

Richard Lessor

#19. He says, " 'Lovely' is a lovely word that should be used more often.

Jennifer Niven

#20. It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought.

Paul Westerberg

#21. Our society is the product of several great religious and philosophical traditions. The ideas of the Greeks and Romans, Christianity, Judaism, humanism and the Enlightenment have made us who we are.

Jan Peter Balkenende