Brendan Sexton III Quotes

I think Ewen Bremner is incredible.

Brendan Sexton III

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Way

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • English
  • Nobody

• I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Film
  • Limitations
  • My Own

• I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

  

  Usher
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Child

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• I'm not a great writer.

  

  E. L. James
  • Great
  • Writer
  • Great Writer

• My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Light

• The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Business
  • Small
  • Name

• I wouldn't want to be a James Bond.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Bond
  • James Bond

• In my day we didn't have sex education, we just picked up what we could off the television.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Up
  • Education
  • Day

• Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Like
  • Better
  • Better Things

• The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.

  

  Fionn Whitehead
  • Up
  • Together
  • Learning

• I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Book
  • Said
  • Event

• When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn't know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?

  

  Carly Craig
  • Relationship
  • Day
  • Rules

• Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.

  

  Ted Williams
  • Important
  • Money
  • Game

• What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Change
  • Religion
  • Revelation

• I will not be able to rule without you. You and I have the same responsibility. I do, as Bolivia's number one servant. Servant - one who serves the nation, not one whom the nation serves.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Responsibility
  • Same
  • Nation

• When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.

  

  Sam Farr
  • Small
  • Attention
  • California

• I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Imagine
  • Remembering

• It all begins, I maintain, with that powerful and underutilized thing called love. God's love for the individual is displayed by those people who reflect his love in their words and deeds. It ultimately gets understood and accepted by the child in poverty, and through that individual's love for others, the world gets changed.

  

  Wess Stafford
  • People
  • Children
  • Poverty

• Our view is that economic isolationism is the wrong way to go. Vibrant, successful growing economies that advance the interests of their citizens engage the global economy. And, we're committed to engaging the global economy.

  

  John W. Snow
  • Growing

• As for the minor characters, it seemed natural for each of them to have his good or bad moment in the life of the protagonists and then slip into the background, just as when we think back on our existence and, of the many people who entered the flow of our lives, remember almost nothing.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Existence

• I think Ewen Bremner is incredible.

  

  Brendan Sexton III