Brandy > Brandy's Quotes

“Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests.”
― Albert Camus

“Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”
― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Well of Lost Plots

“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable.
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Self-evident, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.”
― Ambrose Bierce, THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY W/NEW INTRO BY MORRIS

“Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

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― Ambrose Bierce

“Citation : Action de répéter de façon erronée les mots d'un autre.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.”
― Steven Brust, Dzur

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
― Isaac Asimov

“You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation's Edge

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“In these bodies we will live, in these bodies we will die
Where you invest your love, you invest your life”
― Awake My Soul by Mumford & Sons

“There are no happy endings... There are no endings, happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each others stories - perhaps just for a few minutes, perhaps for years - and then we step out of them again. But all the while, the Story just goes on.”
― Charles deLint, Dreams Underfoot

“Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.”
― Charles de Lint

“The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.”
― Charles de Lint, The Blue Girl

“Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.”
― Charles de Lint

“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.”
― Charles de Lint