Brooke Burke Quotes

I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.

Brooke Burke

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• Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

  

  Pamela Hansford Johnson
  • Believe
  • Man
  • You

• We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Family
  • Want
  • Walking

• Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Time
  • God
  • Mind

• I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Long
  • Me

• You were not wanted. You were, at best, tolerated. You had to be constantly on your guard, like an animal in a jungle full of beasts of prey. You experienced it all within the short distance of five miles from the gates of St. Peter's to Park Station in the city.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • City
  • Best
  • Animal

• Using a forecasting company is like going to a fortune-teller. If you believe the company and the color does not sell, who do you blame? The forecasters? No, you blame yourself.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Believe
  • Color
  • Yourself

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Famous
  • Yourself
  • Inside

• Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Children
  • Culture
  • Law

• Women do two thirds of the world's work. Yet they earn only one tenth of the world's income and own less than one percent of the world's property. They are among the poorest of the world's poor.

  

  Barber Conable
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation and credibility to do so.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Good
  • Sacrifice
  • Reputation

• I don't take a scene or word for granted.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Word
  • Scene
  • Take

• I don't have a favourite designer. If I like the piece, I don't really care if it's any particular brand - I'll buy!

  

  Barbara Palvin
  • Like
  • Care
  • Brand

• It isn't hard to be in a relationship because I've always loved to be in a relationship, and I love to be in love.

  

  Usher
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Loved

• I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Literature
  • Gentleman

• When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Broken
  • Promise

• She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. 'You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Men
  • She
  • Together

• I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Book

• I really just compete against myself. I look at my previous material and try to surpass what I've done.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • Done

• The ancient Britons lived and breathed in poetry: the expression may seem extravagant, but it is not so in reality; for, in their political maxims, preserved to our own times, they place the poet-musician beside the agriculturist and the artist, as one of the three pillars of social existence.

  

  Augustin Thierry
  • Musician
  • Expression
  • Poet

• O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus, so much carelessness, pardon such great ignorance. My God, Jesus my Love, Increated Goodness, what would have become of me if you had not drawn me to yourself? Open your heart to me, open to me your sacramental breast; I open mine to you.

  

  Gemma Galgani
  • Jesus
  • Ignorance
  • Virtue

• We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh.

  

  Andy Hertzfeld
  • Writing
  • Couple

• Ban at the 2008 Global Leadership Awards Gala, held October 1, 2008 by the United Nations Association of the United States of America. It's a 'lyric acknowledgment'—inspired by honoree Jay-Z—of the award winners, sung by Ban as a rap.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • America
  • Leadership
  • Rap

• I have no idea what I weigh. I don't even own a scale.

  

  Brooke Burke