Brocades Quotes

#1. Fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

Marya Mannes

#2. It's hard enough to do a good show, but it seems like not enough to want to do that.

Loren Bouchard

#3. High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought.' - John Cleese

Paul Arden

#4. Right after high school, I moved to Rio and took classes to become a technician for a manufacturing factory where you had to figure out how to produce 3,000 pairs of jeans. But in Rio, I was by myself, which was very liberating, being so young. I got to do my own thing.

Francisco Costa

#5. It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.

Ramakrishna

#6. Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Pythagoras

#7. Basic research leads to new knowledge," Bush wrote. "It provides scientific capital. It creates the fund from which the practical applications of knowledge must be drawn.

Walter Isaacson

#8. The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

Jimmy Carter

#9. Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this.

Plato

#10. Why, that means you're just a ... busybody. You could be anyone. You could be a journalist.'

Sara Sheridan