Mr Brisbane Quotes

#1. Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a complicated expression as I left. Cole pointed at him and said, "You're a son of a bitch. He belongs here more than you do.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. If you're not happy with yourself, how can you even begin to figure out if another person makes you happy, annoyed, angry, sad and so on.

S.A. Tawks

#3. The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.

Arthur Brisbane

#4. There were no snooty commuters at this late hour. They were home snug in their beds where they should be.

S.A. Tawks

#5. A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.

Arthur Brisbane

#6. The purpose of water is to drink it but we swim in it for the fun of it.

S.A. Tawks

#7. If I hadn't worked up the courage to talk to Christy, she most likely would have been a pretty face that disappeared back into the crowd.

S.A. Tawks

#8. Do you feel better?" I asked Sam as he opened the door to the Volkswagen for me.
"Yes," he said. He was still a terrible liar.
"Good," I said. I was still a fantastic one.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. Brisbane is so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely ... It is simply the most ordinary place in the world ... It was so shabby and makeshift ... a place where poetry could never occur.

David Malouf

#10. You look like a puppy. Like I'm jingling my keys and you're jumping by the door waiting for your walk"
"Woof.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

Arthur Brisbane

#12. My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges.

S.A. Tawks

#13. I must have appeared like a real bad boy in Christy's eyes. Well, at least a bad boy by home and away standards.

S.A. Tawks

#14. The false hope I filled myself with is fleeing and I'm beginning to feel scared again.

S.A. Tawks

#15. I realised I got anxious because my true aspiration wasn't to become the chief of a multi-billion dollar, multi-national company that created widgets or some shit.

S.A. Tawks

#16. It was odd but I couldn't jump the chasm of missing evidence to the conclusion Todd was making.

S.A. Tawks

#17. Someone who lives vicariously will never be truly happy because they're not happy with themselves.

S.A. Tawks

#18. My newfound motivation had me feeling confident in my ability and I headed to Mackay with a plan.

S.A. Tawks

#19. Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Arthur Brisbane

#20. It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.

Maggie Stiefvater

#21. I might grow old in Brisbane, but I would never grow up.

David Malouf

#22. You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things
useful things.

Deanna Raybourn

#23. The leading characteristic of the savage state is its refusal or avoidance of industry.

Arthur Brisbane

#24. I found it hard to get motivated because I found it hard to care.

S.A. Tawks

#25. It was as if I was automatically one of them because I smoked.

S.A. Tawks

#26. Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

Arthur Brisbane

#27. She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics.

S.A. Tawks

#28. I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to hers Sam, Linger

Maggie Stiefvater

#29. Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night ...
Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.

Maggie Stiefvater

#30. I broke in swiftly. "How kind of you to renew your offer, your Grace. But I am afraid I must decline. Brisbane is the man for me.

Deanna Raybourn

#31. Looking back really does make you wonder, but the truth is it doesn't change a thing.

S.A. Tawks

#32. Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

Arthur Brisbane