Dodie Brando Quotes

#1. Dodie: "Mama, Jamie's up on the hill and he's f***g a goat!"
Mama: "Well, it's Jamie's goat, ain't it?"
-Peter Manso illustrates the brash wit pervasive in the Brando family with this exchange between Dodie Brando, Marlon's mother, and her mother in-law.

Peter Manso

#2. I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!

Rodney Dangerfield

#3. Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.

Eleesha

#4. Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Roy H. Williams

#5. I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing.

Anna Carey

#6. The biggest sin against the poor and the hungry is perhaps indifference, making believe we do not see, passing by on the other side of the street.

Raniero Cantalamessa

#7. It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. Gratitude is the appreciation of things that are not deserved, earned or demanded - those wonderful things that we take for granted.

Renee Paule

#9. The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.

Robert Morgan

#10. Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

Brian Aldiss

#11. Men's weaknesses are often necessary to the purposes of life.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#12. I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.

Anita Diamant

#13. Mankind today is still making history without having any conscious idea of what it really wants or under what conditions it would stop being unhappy; in fact what it is doing seems to be making itself more unhappy and calling that unhappiness progress.

Norman O. Brown

#14. Listen to the characters that you create. They have a lot to say and they're smarter than you think." - Christy King

Christy King

#15. In fact, you"-he pointed his fork at me-"look like a fairy tale.

Isabel Gillies