Frank Bruni Quotes

#1. Don't you worry, darlin'," he says, his intensely blue eyes full of mischief. "I like surprises

Lisa Daily

#2. College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.

Frank Bruni

#3. The inclination to consider UPenn, not attendance at UPenn, is the key to future earnings.

Frank Bruni

#4. That's the beauty of the famous scientific method. You observe your subject, ask questions, and then research before establishing a hypothesis.

Claudia Burgoa

#5. In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.

Frank Bruni

#6. He communicates authenticity to an electorate ravenous for it.

Frank Bruni

#7. All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven't been made yet.

Raegan Butcher

#8. An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.

Dick Vitale

#9. [Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

Frank Bruni

#10. Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

Frank Bruni

#11. When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.

David Henrie

#12. No one is right when it comes to destination weddings. It's a big ask, requesting people take time off work and fly off to take a cruise just to see you get married.

Mallory Ortberg

#13. After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn't cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn't clash.

Frank Bruni

#14. I don't see you making it to the top; nobody's going to help you get there. You have to do it all on your own. But if you want it so bad, prove me wrong.

Nabil N. Jamal

#15. Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.

Frank Bruni

#16. It is only God who gives strength and wisdom for fulfill the God-given dream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

Corey Taylor

#18. I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

Frank Bruni

#19. My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

Frank Bruni

#20. I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.

Linda Ronstadt

#21. As there was no saddle, Lisa said to the horse, "May I pull myself up?"
And damned if the horse didn't nod.

Jackie Kessler

#22. In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#23. Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!

Frank Bruni

#24. You want science and studies? Fuck you. I've got scars and blood and vomit.

Jim Wendler

#25. Don't I always tell you to never listen to me?

Sean Kennedy

#26. Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.

Frank Bruni

#27. Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?

Frank Bruni

#28. He'd tried to talk to you about anarchy yesterday but his English and your French conspired against the dialog.

Ian Rankin

#29. Thin people, God bless them, God curse them, don't get it: If you're not thin, you need to be careful and conscious about when and how you suitors initially see you.

Frank Bruni

#30. My favorite Congressional incongruity: ... Red State legislators galumphing from meeting to meeting in full pancake makeup. Estee Lauder may well make more money on Capitol Hill than in Beverly Hills.

Frank Bruni