Mr Brownlow Quotes

#1. CHAPTER XIV COMPRISING FURTHER PARTICULARS OF OLIVER'S STAY AT MR. BROWNLOW'S. WITH THE REMARKABLE PREDICTION WHICH ONE MR. GRIMWIG UTTERED CONCERNING HIM, WHEN HE WENT OUT ON AN ERRAND

Charles Dickens

#2. Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.
It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow, young man," returned Mr. Brownlow, "and such tales usually are; if it were one of unmixed joy and happiness, it would be very brief.

Charles Dickens

#3. CHAPTER XLIX MONKS AND MR. BROWNLOW AT LENGTH MEET. THEIR CONVERSATION, AND THE INTELLIGENCE THAT INTERRUPTS IT

Charles Dickens

#4. There are times when silence has the loudest voice.

Leroy Brownlow

#5. I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful.

Alistair Begg

#6. Friends told me not to bother with the silents - they're jerky, poorly photographed and ludicrously badly acted. But I was immediately struck by the freshness and vitality of these films.

Kevin Brownlow

#7. One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.

Djuna Barnes

#8. I was sent to boarding school - a grim place. The only good thing the headmaster did for us was every Sunday evening in the winter he would show us films in the chapel. He couldn't afford a sound projector, so we saw silent films, which you could then still rent from photographic shops.

Kevin Brownlow

#9. There's no tab. And there's no price for what we give each other. Not ever. Not financial. Not emotional. I have to get back to work.

Janet Evanovich

#10. If your thoughts have convinced you that you can never do anything right, you'll tend to make more mistakes than normal and have a high rate of failure.

Joyce Meyer

#11. Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay for education?

Kinky Friedman

#12. Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.

Kevin Brownlow

#13. It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'

Kevin Brownlow

#14. When we choose the path of love, we grow spiritually, help others, and balance our karma.

Doreen Virtue

#15. Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Kevin Brownlow

#16. The reason I put so much energy into it at the beginning was that while there were plenty of people looking after the talkies, almost nobody was doing the same for the silents. Now there are plenty of very good historians and restorers.

Kevin Brownlow

#17. I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

Kevin Brownlow

#18. Silent pictures show us how we lived and what our attitudes were. And as an art form, they can be wonderfully entertaining and often inspirational.

Kevin Brownlow

#19. What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

Naomie Harris

#20. 'Napoleon' is pure cinema, and cinema was designed for sharing.

Kevin Brownlow

#21. Things today 'sure ain't like they used to be'. They've changed, moved on, progressed.

Fennel Hudson

#22. Working with my hands keeps me sane.

Seamus Dever

#23. True love and a mean spirit cannot coexist in a relationship. They are two opposing forces. Someone who is consistently and/or intentionally mean, in my opinion, is not able to accept or give unconditional love.

Michelle Brownlow

#24. I've been many things - bold, rash maybe, and lucky - but I don't think I've ever been really brave. Doing what you want, even if it's difficult or painful, that isn't brave. Doing what you have to do - however much it hurts, however much you hate it - that's courage.

Meg Clothier

#25. Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#26. His ascent was slow - the blow to the head must have disoriented him worse than he let on - so I went behind, ready to catch him should he lose his balance. Well, I could soften his landing when he hit the floor. Maybe.

Jodi Meadows

#27. To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

Kevin Brownlow

#28. We treat the crime capital of the United States as if it was a second Disneyland, smelling like roses, a great place to take the family or hold a convention.

Ross Macdonald

#29. I realised that you could easily turn any room into a cinema with a projector, so I went on and on at my parents for one. They eventually got me a projector for Christmas when I was ten, and I realised I'd made a ridiculous mistake - I'd forgotten to say 'movie' projector; I got a still one.

Kevin Brownlow

#30. My first restoration was on 'Napoleon,' trying to put the French version in with the English version, and it was most unsatisfactory.

Kevin Brownlow