Top 79 Brodie Quotes
#1. The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.
Muriel Spark
#2. BRODIE:
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.
Kevin Smith
#3. So how old was Miss Brodie, when she was in her damn prime?
Rodney Ross
#4. He found and praised Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat. I said I found it too schematic and preferred The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He nodded, but not in agreement, it seemed, more like a therapist who now understood my problem.
Ian McEwan
#5. I apologize. Hi, I'm Agent Sloane Brodie, your Team Leader. I enjoy reading, cozy nights in, and the soothing sounds of classic rock. I also like to browse the Internet for funny cat videos, but deep down, I think I'm more of a dog person.
Charlie Cochet
#6. You know, Brodie, you're like an STD: no one wants you, everybody hates you, and you're a reminder of the devastating consequences of not using protection during sex.
Suzanne Wright
#7. Harold Brodie is a louse and a lothario who cheats at cards and has a different girl in his rumble seat every week. That coupe of his is pos-i-tute-ly a petting palace. And he's a terrible kisser to boot."
Evie's parents stared in stunned silence.
"Or so I've heard.
Libba Bray
#8. I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.
Muriel Spark
#9. For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.
Muriel Spark
#10. Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.
Muriel Spark
#11. Brodie Bruce:
I LOVE THE SMELL OF COMMERCE IN THE MORNING!
Kevin Smith
#12. Brodie Bruce:
You're gonna listen to me? To something I said!? Jesus, man, haven't I made it abundantly clear during the tenure of our friendship that I don't know shit? I mean half the time I'm just talking out of my ass ... or sticking my hand in it.
Kevin Smith
#13. What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.
Peter Brodie
#14. No matter what situation you're in, you always have a choice.
Richard Brodie
#15. Passion is the spark that ignites the flame of love; to burn brighter and hotter.
Deborah Brodie
#17. Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they create a serious obstacle to the development of new therapeutic drugs.
Bernard Brodie
#18. Start today like a new beginning, and not a repeat.
Deborah Brodie
#19. I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things ... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#21. Faith encompasses so much more than a denomination!
Deborah Brodie
#22. Count the cost of your calling, find the value of your dream, and most of all find your place in His love.
Deborah Brodie
#23. This Jackson bloke was the ruddy Scarlet Pimpernel, here, there and everywhere, always one step ahead of Barry. And everywhere he went, women were disappearing.
Kate Atkinson
#24. The deeper you look into Truth; your reflection of self disappears.
Deborah Brodie
#25. He was officially a lunatic, she decided. Strangely, that didn't make him less attractive.
Kate Atkinson
#26. Fiction opens a window of imagination that reality closes.
Deborah Brodie
#27. Before you can speak the truth with your lips you must know truth in your heart.
Psalm 15:2
Deborah Brodie
#28. You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right.
Deborah Brodie
#29. Every study that's been done on email marketing has shown that increased frequency brings better results. If you're only emailing somebody once a month, they'll forget you.
Ian Brodie
#30. Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Deborah Brodie
#31. If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my guess that first of all the Church is afraid of complete banishment.
Fawn M. Brodie
#33. Unforgiveness is a shadow of the past; it is behind you, but you always know it is there. Sorrow and bitterness covers your heart like the darkness covers the night.
Deborah Brodie
#34. One who has lived through the days of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese war lords feels something that a younger generation does not concerning the aberrations that are possible in this world.
Bernard Brodie
#35. Do not focus only on your needs; focus on your purpose.
Deborah Brodie
#36. Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
#37. Truth has a way of appearing no matter how hard you attempt to hide it.
Deborah Brodie
#38. You are only willing to suffer the cost of your dream when you understand the value of your dream.
Deborah Brodie
#40. There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
Peter Brodie
#41. A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less what a man was than what he has become.
Fawn M. Brodie
#42. Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
Kate Atkinson
#43. Our greatest battle will always be against ourselves, and winning that battle will be our greatest victory.
Paul G. Brodie
#44. I like living at home: I've been making films since I was 12, when I played Sam in 'Love Actually', and if you spend as much time away on set as I have done, you get your independence young, so it's nice to come back home.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#46. Paths that lead to the crossroads of life; otherwise known as "transition."
Transition is the tension present between struggle and grace.
Deborah Brodie
#47. This is not a reaction to your words or actions, rather, it is in direct response to them
Deborah Brodie
#48. A player's effectiveness is directly related to his ability to be right there, doing that thing, in the moment. He can't be worrying about the past or the future or the crowd or some other extraneous event. He must be able to respond in the here and now.
John Brodie
#49. When you make the dream of your heart a treasure of heaven, it holds an eternal value.
Deborah Brodie
#50. A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Fawn M. Brodie
#51. Superficial parallels were drawn between the Church and the Nazi Party, with its emphasis on active involvement by every member. The women's auxiliary of the Party and the Hitler Youth were regarded by some as secular equivalents to the Church's Relief Society, MIA, and the Scouting programs.
Fawn M. Brodie
#54. Without the right marketing metrics, you are shooting in the dark. The only way to know if things are working for you or not is those metrics.
Ian Brodie
#55. Reading can be a journey to anywhere, but you don't need the luggage." ~AB
Alison Brodie
#57. Thus far the chief purpose of our military establishment has been to win wars. From now on its chief purpose must be to avert them. It can have almost no other useful purpose.
Bernard Brodie
#58. Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Fawn M. Brodie
#59. I've always been able to be firm, to talk my way out of sticky situations. Bullies at school. Attempted muggings.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#61. The amphibious landing of U.S. Marines on September 1950 at Inchon, on the west coast of Korea, was one of the most audacious and spectacularly successful amphibious landings in all naval history.
Bernard Brodie
#62. Strength does not come in those times when you hit the mark; it comes in those times when you strive to but miss.
Deborah Brodie
#63. I struggle with reading a bit. I'm slightly dyslexic, so reading takes me quite a while, and in general, I'm not a big book reader at all. And something like 'Game of Thrones' seems very daunting to me!
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#64. Your heart can be broken, but your soul never bleeds.
Deborah Brodie
#65. Seeing a miracle will inspire you, but knowing you are a miracle will change you.
Deborah Brodie
#66. One attraction of Latin is that you can immerse yourself in the poems of Horace and Catullus without fretting over how to say, "Have a nice day."
Peter Brodie
#67. You have the greatest chance of winning when your first commitment is to a total and enthusiastic involvement in the game itself. Enthusiasm is what matters most.
John Brodie
#68. What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.
Peter Brodie
#70. To 'coach' comes from the physical horse-and-buggy coach, referring to something that gets someone from where they are now to where they want to be. You help someone get from where they are to where they want to be.
Ian Brodie
#71. There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.
Fawn M. Brodie
#72. And I could trace them directly back to email subscribers.
Ian Brodie
#73. You cannot slay the illusion of the victim until you face it and call it truth
Deborah Brodie
#74. Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
Fawn M. Brodie
#75. I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#76. The trouble is, being an actor, you're always being sent scripts, so you've always got something to read. You've always got about three scripts to read, that you have to read, all the time. So finding a book or getting into a book series is hard, especially for me.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
#77. While it is easy to blame the hand of the abuser, when that hand no longer is raised against you, why do you continue to feel the burn of its touch?
Deborah Brodie
#78. Looking at the children, she knew that any hope for a new life would have to grow within her. She glanced at Nate, wondering if he felt as she did, that children were the only consolation in this world, the only recompense for so much suffering.
Laura Brodie
#79. I think I'd be quite good at Builder, like designer, construction ... I've always liked making things. I'm quite good with my hands. So I think I'd be quite good at designing new inventions.
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
