James Broughton Quotes

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

James Broughton

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• The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Up
  • Moving
  • More

• Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Evidence
  • Extraordinary

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Done
  • Style
  • Leave

• I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Television
  • Radio

• When I'm doing my makeup, my favorite feature to enhance is the brows. They frame your face - good eyebrows are so important.

  

  Callie Hernandez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Makeup

• I always say, 'When the Olympics are happening, you shouldn't be in any other place in the planet - you should be here.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • You
  • Always
  • Place

• You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Pretty
  • Feel
  • Young

• I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Writing
  • School
  • High

• I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Picture

• In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• If I'm going to the gym or the shops to get food, then I don't need to do anything - I'll just put on a pair of sunnies, and that's enough.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Food
  • Need
  • Gym

• The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Doubt

• They gave us the language but it is only we who know how to use it

  

  Hanif Kureishi

• You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

  

  James Blunt

• We cannot be kind to each other here for even an hour. We whisper, and hint, and chuckle and grin at our brother's shame; however you take it we men are a little breed.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Men
  • Brother

• Too much of my family has messed with drugs. Addiction might be in my genes, so I ain't never tryin' it. It's something you can't control, and I don't like things I can't control. I worked too hard to have it taken away for something stupid. I ain't gonna be laughed at the way I used to laugh at those crackheads.

  

  Edgerrin James
  • Family
  • Control
  • Laugh

• It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

  

  Susanna Kaysen
  • Reality
  • Conscious
  • Misperception

• The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Changing
  • Terrorism
  • Fault

• There's a wire injected under my skin a few days before an event and connected to that is a wireless transmitter. That device communicates my blood-glucose levels to the receiver unit, which is mounted above my steering wheel.

  

  Charlie Kimball

• When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.

  

  Lisa Ling
  • Time
  • Good
  • Why

• If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

  

  James Broughton