Synclaire Brands Quotes

#1. Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#2. The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.

Heinz R. Pagels

#3. Who knows their own story? It certainly makes no sense when you're in the middle of it

Nick Cave

#4. You don't need to be defined by your job.

Al Yankovic

#5. Good ideas may not want to be free, but they do want to connect, fuse, recombine. They want to reinvent themselves by crossing conceptual borders. They want to complete each other as much as they want to compete

Steven Johnson

#6. Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Tyrese Gibson

#7. Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#8. A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.

Bob Harrington

#9. Stern men with empires in their brains.

James Russell Lowell

#10. Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesn't look at you right, somebody says something. Everybody is sensitive. If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, I'd still be in Savannah.

Clarence Thomas

#11. The twilight hour comes: even my grief is swept away by the anonymity of life.

Montri Umavijani