Steven Brust (Steven Karl Zoltán Brust) Quotes

There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

Steven Brust

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• I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Think
  • Wise
  • Back

• You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Change

• The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Wise
  • Fool
  • Motivational

• Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • Up
  • Money

• I have found an honest and excellent man Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard Manet who, I believe, sincerely loves me. I have entered into the positive life after having lived for a long time in by chimeras.

  

  Berthe Morisot
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years.

  

  Ian Brown
  • Writing

• That guy just cut right in front of me. But I'm not going to let it bother me. No. I'm on my way to work and I decided it doesn't matter who wants to cut in front of my lane today. I'm not going to let it bother me one bit. Once I get to work, find myself a parking space, if somebody wants to jump ahead of me and take it, I'm going to let them.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Today

• Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Frozen

• I went to a high school for the performing arts and I lived and breathed music. It kept me focused; it kept me sane.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• The theory of probability is the only mathematical tool available to help map the unknown and the uncontrollable. It is fortunate that this tool, while tricky, is extraordinarily powerful and convenient.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Help
  • Science
  • Powerful

• perhaps these men in the House Caucus Room [Committee on Un-American Activities] are determined to spread silence: to frighten those voices which will shout no, and ask questions, defend the few, attack cruelty and proclaim the rights and dignity of man. ... America is going to look very strange to Americans and they will not be at home here, for the air will slowly become unbreathable to all forms of life except sheep.

  

  Martha Gellhorn
  • Life
  • Men
  • Home

• But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Tree

• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  

  Aristotle
  • Victory
  • Enemies
  • Desires

• A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Understand
  • Charges
  • Viewpoint

• A fool's bolt is soon shot.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fool
  • Shots
  • Folly

• My father was a great business leader and humanitarian who dedicated his life to the company and the community. He also was a wonderful family man, a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him, yet he will continue to inspire us all.

  

  William Clay Ford, Jr.
  • Family
  • Father
  • Leader

• My mother grew up with each of her children - whatever your age, that's the age she'd be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable.

  

  Esther Rolle
  • Children
  • Problems
  • Grew Up

• Oh, we've had our share of hotels bein' smashed and all, but that was a long time ago. You get lousy room service... I mean, there's no use throwin' a TV set out the window for the sake of throwin' a TV set out the window. But if you get a lousy picture then you have an excuse

  

  Angus McKinnon Young AC/DC
  • Long
  • Mean
  • Share

• The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.

  

  Adrian Anthony Gill
  • Children
  • Animal
  • Missing

• Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Design
  • Special
  • Century

• There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.

  

  Steven Brust
  • Excuse
  • Manners
  • Reflexes