Get Down To Brass Tacks Quotes

#1. What I'm proposing, to myself and other people, is what I often call the tourist attitude - that you act as though you've never been there before. So that you're not supposed to know anything about it. If you really get down to brass tacks, we have never been anywhere before.

John Cage

#2. If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

Orson Scott Card

#3. I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

James Callis

#4. You feel almost a part of the wheat when you're sitting in a combine.

Cynthia Kadohata

#5. You think one's any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people killing each other since they figured out how, that's all. Give them pretty names and numbers, but it's all the same to the worms.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#6. Every time you change your orders without obvious reason, you weaken your authority.

Napoleon Hill

#7. Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Lou Holtz

#8. Would that be dangerous, to not look while being looked at?

Helen Oyeyemi

#9. All women are feminists, whether they know it or not.

Isabelle Holland

#10. When I speak with people who love their jobs and have vital friendships at work, they always talk about how their workgroup is like a family.

Tom Rath

#11. Channary did not like to take the elevators. She had once told Levana that she felt queenly having to lift her skirts as she went up and down the stairs. It had taken all of Levana's efforts not to ask if that was the same reason she lifted her skirts all those other times too.

Marissa Meyer

#12. I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off.

Drew Goddard

#13. I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

D.H. Lawrence

#14. Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Theodore Levitt

#15. Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

Mason Cooley

#16. As far as I can tell, the biggest side effect of a gluten sensitivity is that you actually become the number one symptom: a huge pain in the ass.

Celia Rivenbark