Carol Rifka Brunt Quotes

After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.

Carol Rifka Brunt

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• To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.

  

  Florence King
  • Good
  • Language
  • Achieve

• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Best

• I would love to be a guys' girl, but they always end up falling in love with me, so I'm a girls' girl instead. I've tried having friendly relationships with men, but it ends up being impossible, and I've been around the block too many times not to see it coming.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Men
  • Love

• As a self-published author, you have the choice. Embrace the power to create a book that is truly yours. Don't be a whiner or a copycat.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Power
  • Author

• The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment … seems to result from a combination of causes-our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by 'the death of God' and of the subordinate god, Eros.

  

  Allan Bloom
  • World
  • God
  • Death

• If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.

  

  Lee Kuan Yew
  • Live

• The place of justice is a hallowed place.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Justice

• Given that trade benefited the Asian economies on the way up, it seems natural that the slowdown in global trade, whatever its causes, could lead to some loss of dynamism and growth in the region.

  

  Jerome Powell
  • Up
  • Growth

• Growing up in New York, we lived all around the city depending on our economic circumstance. I also lived in Puerto Rico for a number of years.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Up
  • Growing
  • City

• There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Movie

• I'm terrified of goats.

  

  Annalise Basso

• Democrats stand ready and willing to work with President Trump to improve upon the ACA - but we will not sit by and watch him sabotage the health care of millions of Americans.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Work
  • Health
  • Trump

• I wrote and drew my own books on notebook paper, and I'd staple 'em together. I had my own fictional company, and we had our own thinly veiled offshoots of whatever was popular at Marvel and DC at the time.

  

  Jason Aaron
  • Time
  • Together
  • Popular

• He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib
  • Bad
  • Evil
  • Deep

• The reason I'm travelling so much is because of reasons that weren't completely planned. Several of the shows became successful and were invited to go to other places and they've all happened at similar times.

  

  Matthew Bourne

• Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award, you have people that don't have configuration management, don't have vulnerability management, don't have patch management.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • People
  • Game
  • Management

• Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

  

  Armistead Maupin
  • Fun

• Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Great
  • Book
  • Reading

• Qui punit le vaincu ne craint point le vainqueur.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

  

  Claire Denis
  • Relationship

• I use Pureology Shampoo and Conditioner, and after shampooing, I'll put the conditioner on, go watch a movie, and wash it out later. When you have black girl hair, once we wash, we've gotta do the whole press and get in the edges and everything. That's a lot of heat to go back to straight on a daily basis.

  

  Aja Naomi King
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Girl

• Cogito, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam : quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit.

  

  Plautus

• Competitiveness has been a big thing for me.

  

  Bobby Rahal

• After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt