Bran Ferren Quotes

Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

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• I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Beautiful
  • Mom
  • Grandmother

• I obviously would love to have a girlfriend, but a girlfriend deserves so much of your time and energy. And she deserves to be treated like a princess because that's how you should treat your girls. And if I can't give them that time and that devotion because of my dedication to football, then I don't feel like I should almost waste their time.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Time
  • Energy
  • Like

• I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Think
  • Forget
  • Try

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Always
  • Minds
  • Comedians

• The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Remember
  • Nice
  • Journey

• Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Time
  • Good
  • Want

• My family is basically Gypsies - for real.

  

  Fairuza Balk
  • Real
  • Family
  • Basically

• I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Doing
  • Ball
  • Harry Potter

• My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Father

• I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Look
  • Three
  • Jerusalem

• Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today

• And I wondered, not for the first time, what patriotism is, what the love of country truly consists of, how that yearning loyalty that had shaken my friend’s voice arises, and how so real a love can become, too often, so foolish and vile a bigotry. Where does it go wrong?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Country
  • Real

• I'm nobody's child.You're mine now. Not my child, but mine, to miss you when you go, to look out for you, to hope you'll be careful.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hope

• I am still making my living reciting my verses for crowds who refuse to buy my books. I must do this, as all American rhymers must, however sick I may be of the sound of my own voice.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • May
  • American
  • Sick

• The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Good
  • Done
  • Design

• If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Jesus
  • Teacher
  • Advice

• But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Gloria Steinem
  • Larry Flynt

• I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Health
  • Government
  • Care

• It's people, not possessions, that make home for me. It's not that I get much time to entertain, or any of that, what with the television production schedule and, now, singing concerts all around the country and making recordings.

  

  Jim Nabors
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Stock

• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Success
  • Sports
  • Period

• Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.

  

  Bran Ferren
  • Believe
  • Impossible
  • Visionaries