Brandon Webb Quotes
With rare exceptions, Hollywood typically casts Spec Ops guys as macho, swaggering strongmen. As usual, Hollywood's got it wrong.
Quotes to Explore
-
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
-
Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
-
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
-
I don't watch TV.
-
I've been on a tweeting mission.
-
Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
-
I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
-
Life is such a tragicomedy.
-
I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
-
The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!
-
Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.
-
The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
-
War is not civilized.
-
We estimated that we could make one of four cylinders with 4 inch bore and 4 inch stroke, weighing not over two hundred pounds, including all accessories.
-
In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.
-
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
-
Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
-
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
-
Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
-
It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the house you pretended that you weren't hungry so they could have more. In the cold of a winter's night you got up and put your blanket on their bed so they wouldn't be cold. You'd kill anyone who tried to harm them - I tried my best to kill that man in the hallway. Then one sunny day, they walk out in all innocence and they walk right into the grief that you'd give your life to spare them from.
-
The white Christian heterosexual married male is the epitome of everything right with America!
-
If you're playing a character who says whatever he wants, I felt free to say whatever I wanted on set.
-
With rare exceptions, Hollywood typically casts Spec Ops guys as macho, swaggering strongmen. As usual, Hollywood's got it wrong.
