W. C. Brownell Quotes

Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.

W. C. Brownell

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• I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Best
  • Doing
  • Lunch

• It's because I have no sense of shame that I'm always willing to give things a go: I've ridden horses naked into the sea, I've climbed rocks, all kinds of things.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Always
  • Sea
  • Rocks

• A notable scheme has occurred to me.

  

  Jack Vance

• This is it no more fun the death of all joy has come.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Fun
  • Death
  • Joy

• Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.

  

  Aeschylus

• Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • Political
  • Fear

• Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Life

• The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Up
  • Done

• I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• My fashion resolution for 2015 is to continue to be inspired by all of the great designers of the past and present while keeping true to my style and myself.

  

  Bella Hadid
  • Great
  • True
  • Past

• Don't believe everything you think - or feel.

  

  Anna Chancellor
  • Believe

• The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, 'The enemy's ships are more than ours,' replied, 'For how many then wilt thou reckon me?'

  

  Plutarch
  • Enemy

• I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• 'Everybody rich and happy.' She smiled. 'Also complacent and rather stupid, you may have noticed.'

  

  Joe Haldeman
  • May
  • She
  • Happy

• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Political

• Dancing and music get into our bodies and it gets into our minds and it gets into our souls and we can be connected to something else. Music connects us all to each other, and I think that's just magical and beautiful, and I need that in my life. Heartbreak is the pain of separation. To me, the cure that music offers and that dancing offers is complete integration.

  

  Becky Stark
  • Music
  • Pain
  • Dancing

• It’s never overreacting to ask for what you want and need.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Ask
  • Overreacting

• We may form free constitutions, but our vices will destroy them; we may enact laws, but they will not protect us.

  

  Lyman Beecher
  • May
  • Free
  • Law

• Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.

  

  W. C. Brownell
  • Savage
  • Compliment
  • Literally