Brusquely Quotes

#1. I'm trying to think of a witty comeback, when Boggs says brusquely, "Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear." I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.

Suzanne Collins

#2. He pulled himself up short. He believed in a door. He must find that door. The door was the way to . . . to . . . The Door was The Way. Good. Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to. Brusquely

Douglas Adams

#3. Put your guns away and get him out,' he ordered brusquely. 'I'll keep you covered. Be careful of him. I don't want a corpse. And hurry up, it's getting light.

Ian Fleming

#4. In God we trust," he brusquely told a journalist. "All others [must] have data.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#5. Not if we blow it up, Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use.
This is one of his death traps.

Suzanne Collins

#6. I was certain I wouldn't sleep again. But I must have, because at four a.m. a different nurse shook me awake and brusquely said, "You can go now. We got what we needed." She refused to tell me exactly what it was they'd gotten and I started to suspect it was my kidneys.

Jenny Lawson

#7. Governor Winthrop despised democracy, which he brusquely labeled "the meanest and worst of all forms of Government." For Puritans, the church and state worked in tandem; the coercive arm of the magistracy was meant to preserve both public order and class distinctions.

Nancy Isenberg

#8. I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

Anais Nin

#9. I was abruptly recognized as nonthreatening, brusquely advised to fuck off, and off I duly and promptly fucked.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. say the honest thing and say the hard thing

Jamie Tworkowski

#11. Our tree was so puny we used orthopedic bulbs.

Milton Berle

#12. Aeroplanes interested me, and at the outbreak of the Second World War, I joined the RAF as a volunteer reservist. I took the opportunity of studying the books which the RAF made available for radio mechanics and looked forward to an interesting course in radio.

Godfrey Hounsfield

#13. I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings

Chigozie Obioma

#14. I'm thinking he might be a sex pest.

L. H. Cosway

#15. St. Francis was in some ways a fundamentalist, but he was fundamentalist about those passages that asked a lot of himself and his "form of life," whereas most reformers (and preachers) are fundamentalist about passages that ask a lot of

Hilarion Kistner O.F.M.

#16. I couldn't be certain, but I think Rose swore in Russian.

Richelle Mead

#17. As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.

Nikita Gill

#18. Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Karen Russell