Brownie Wise Quotes

#1. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

#2. I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

Gabriel Macht

#3. Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way
and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. I love you this much in whole world,' Curtis said, throwing his chubby arms out wide. Willem grinned, wishing all love was so easy to find.

Andy Frankham-Allen

#5. When you help someone up a hill, you find yourself closer to the top.

Brownie Wise

#6. What's important is that, come the general election, people think the right things of you. They think that you've got the right values and the right policies. And that you're the right kind of person to lead the country.

George Osborne

#7. He was deader than a shrunken head at a Hackey Sack festival.

Scott Adams

#8. Remember the steam kettle; though up to its neck in hot water it continues to sing.

Brownie Wise

#9. If we build the people, they'll build the business

Brownie Wise

#10. The ship anchored in the harbor rots faster than the ship crossing the ocean; a still pool of water stagnates more rapidly than a running stream.

Brownie Wise

#11. If you want to build a business, build the people.

Brownie Wise

#12. It isn't easy to be frank with yourself. But, if you wish to find your particular success in life, it is the most rewarding reaction of them all.

Brownie Wise

#13. His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.

Djuna Barnes

#14. You have a certain charm, believe it or not. That, and you feed me.

Abria Mattina

#15. Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

Francis A. Schaeffer