Charles Farrar Browne Quotes

The fack can't be no longer disgised that a Krysis is onto us.

Charles Farrar Browne

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• From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Black
  • Day

• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Want
  • Continue
  • Supporting

• My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Spend

• There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Tennis

• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Road
  • Matter

• My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Stupid

• The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Doing
  • United States
  • Frame

• Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Great
  • She
  • Writer

• A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

  

  Lars Peter Hansen
  • People
  • Just
  • Economics

• At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Different
  • Artist

• I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Dog
  • Portrait

• I'd like to die with my boots on.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Die
  • Like
  • Boots

• But I majored in Drama, modified with Psychology.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Drama
  • Psychology
  • Modified

• But a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Community
  • Control
  • Quality

• Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Good
  • High
  • Baby

• You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • People
  • Environment
  • Forest

• The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Live
  • Society

• I don't think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.

  

  James McCloughan
  • Job
  • Hero

• There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • Mind
  • Attention

• Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Adversity
  • Thankful

• The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to your measure. It's fascinating that hatred should be so personal as to be almost loving. The knife and the wound aching for each other.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Design
  • Facts
  • Hatred

• The fack can't be no longer disgised that a Krysis is onto us.

  

  Charles Farrar Browne