Sylvia Brownrigg Quotes

#1. The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Walter Lippmann

#2. This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#3. The most delightful and choicest pleasure is that which is hinted at, but never told.

Chretien De Troyes

#4. Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#5. I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#6. It is just because civilization is ever evolving, changing, and becoming more complicated, that experts find it so difficult to define it in explicit terms.

Arthur Keith

#7. It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#8. Don't hang on to the past so tightly that you taint the future.

Katherine Reay

#9. Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#10. Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.

Nancy Pelosi

#11. No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

Sylvia Brownrigg

#12. Miami's never been more than a spit from New York.

Iggy Pop