Miss Brodie Quotes

#1. Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.

Muriel Spark

#2. For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

Muriel Spark

#3. I am putting old heads on your young shoulders,' Miss Brodie had told them at the time.

Muriel Spark

#4. So how old was Miss Brodie, when she was in her damn prime?

Rodney Ross

#5. The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to get rid of her she would have to be assassinated.

Muriel Spark

#6. He found and praised Muriel Spark's The Driver's Seat. I said I found it too schematic and preferred The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He nodded, but not in agreement, it seemed, more like a therapist who now understood my problem.

Ian McEwan

#7. Just write, if you open the gate it gets better and better.

Dusty Redmon

#8. If we're concerned about climate change as a country, we should have policies that make sure our great-grandchildren have a planet that's healthy and strong.

Cory Booker

#9. Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.

Multatuli

#10. The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

Christopher Lasch

#11. We're not in a world of information overload, we're in a world of filter failure.

Michael Lazerow

#12. The first step is learning to monitor your thoughts; to think about what you are thinking about.

Neale Donald Walsch

#13. The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. IF YOU FIND YOUR LIFE tangled up with somebody else's life for no very logical reasons," writes Bokonon, "that person may be a member of your karass." At

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#15. Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

Christopher Barzak

#16. I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Zora Neale Hurston

#17. - Whenever we roam be beside me.
When you're allone. When you go.
When no one comes along. And for all we
Wander. Encounter and open
Allways curl up with me.
Give me pain, past and fury.
Betray my way. I won't abandon you.-

Mark Z. Danielewski

#18. My dad was a musician, and that was his first love, and I think probably, to be really honest, it was my first love as well.

Kim Basinger

#19. Strength does not come in those times when you hit the mark; it comes in those times when you strive to but miss.

Deborah Brodie