Brandon Mull Quotes

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Brandon Mull

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• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Learning
  • Learn
  • Habit

• You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Important
  • Money
  • Remember

• Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Life
  • Think
  • Habit

• There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Freedom
  • Habit
  • Forgiveness

• Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • People
  • Think
  • Habit

• An excellent habit to cultivate is the analytical study of the King James Bible. For simple yet rich and forceful English, this masterly production is hard to equal; and even though its Saxon vocabulary and poetic rhythm be unsuited to general composition, it is an invaluable model for writers on quaint or imaginative themes.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Simple
  • Study
  • English

• Kelly has a rather bad habit of interrupting.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Bad
  • Habit
  • Rather

• Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Happy

• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Habit
  • Professors
  • Simply

• My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Power
  • Opinion
  • Habit

• Dating co-stars is natural. When you're working with someone, it's habit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • You
  • Habit
  • Dating

• I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It come partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very pernickety and oldmaidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Interesting
  • Alone
  • Habit

• Every great study is not only an end in itself, but also a means of creating and sustaining a lofty habit of mind.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Study

• Habit is Heaven's own redress:it takes the place of happiness.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Heaven
  • Habit

• If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Attitude
  • Habit
  • Excellence

• Culture is best seen not as complexes of concrete behavior patterns - customs, usages, traditions, habit clusters - as has, by and large, been the case up to now, but as a set of control mechanisms - plans, recipes, rules, instructions (what computer engineers call 'programs') - for the governing of behavior.

  

  Clifford Geertz
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Control

• I don't make a habit of watching my parents' films, because it is a little strange. But I will say that I binge watch 'House of Cards' compulsively, and I think it's the first time I've ever seen one of my mom's projects and totally forgot she was my mom!

  

  Dylan Penn
  • Time
  • She
  • House

• Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep, for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.

  

  Edwin Paxton Hood
  • Character
  • Book
  • Reading

• Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Power
  • Freedom

• Dear reader dearest inscrutable listener inscrutably harking or regrettably more likely not harking except in that chamber in me that posits you with me every moment I’m speaking or trying to speak

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Trying

• I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.

  

  Joe Wright
  • Work

• Generally speaking, there's a difference. Moose nose is just pure cartilage. It's not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is - imagine the cartilage of game meat.If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, "What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire," I'd be like, "That's moose nose!"

  

  Adam Richman
  • Game
  • Car
  • Imagine

• Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Habit
  • Pathetic
  • Cell