Them Boys Brantley Quotes

#1. These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#2. Suchness is neither that which is existence, nor that which is nonexistence, nor that which is at once existence and nonexistence, nor that which is not at once existence and nonexistence.

Asvaghosa

#3. The lion is, however, rarely heard - much more seldom seen.

John Hanning Speke

#4. I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#5. They wanted to wait, to improve, to get better, when he's already a world champion. And that's a mistake. That's a chicken attitude.

Sergio Martinez

#6. It all depends on what you think is important, and, when the important stuff is happening, whether you're looking directly at it or looking away.

Cameron Dokey

#7. I probably would have gone the M.F.A. route except I was a dad at 19, and it made more sense to go to work for a newspaper and support a kid that way. But the funny thing is, that detour became the most important step in my developing as a novelist.

Jess Walter

#8. He sucked in a deep breath, his eyes travelling back and forth between mine as he swiped his thumb across my bottom lip. His voice was husky when he spoke, The way you come is fucking devastating.

L. H. Cosway

#9. I don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.

Marie Osmond

#10. Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

Edward O. Wilson

#11. Short-term expediency always fails in the long term.

Frank Herbert

#12. In every encounter between human beings there is a pace set that belongs to them, and that will be taken up in its own rhythm whenever they are together.

Nadine Gordimer

#13. She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Elizabeth George Speare