Brandon Mull Quotes

Telling that guy a secret is like writing it across the sky.

Brandon Mull

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• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Kind
  • Sarcastic
  • Cynical

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Church
  • Myself

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• What I've learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Focus
  • Purpose
  • Best

• On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Poetry
  • Books
  • Living

• Even as a kid, I never liked breakfast. I just don't like to eat then. I like to get up and work. I think sticking a whole bunch of carbohydrates in your stomach in the morning is probably the worst way to begin the day.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Up
  • Work
  • Day

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Small
  • Feel
  • Recognition

• Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Live
  • Women
  • Step

• It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Black
  • Law
  • Always

• I enjoy being the messenger for God in terms of letting people know about HIV and AIDS.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • God
  • Enjoy

• To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.

  

  Colin Kaepernick

• I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • People

• If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• I'm Chinese-American, of course, and so it's very interesting to see China actually launch their own astronauts, becoming the third nation, following the United States and Russia, to do so.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • American
  • Interesting
  • Chinese

• I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Life
  • World
  • Writing

• A hidden nerve is what every writer is ultimately about. It's what all writers wish to uncover when writing about themselves in this age of the personal memoir. And yet it's also the first thing every writer learns to sidestep, to disguise, as though this nerve were a deep and shameful secret that needs to be swathed in many sheaths.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Wish

• I routinely interview college students, mostly from top schools, and I notice that their brains are like old maps, with lots of blank spaces for the uncharted terrain. It's not that they lack for motivation or IQ. It's that they can't connect the dots when they don't know where the dots are in the first place.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • College
  • motivation

• I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Children
  • Family
  • Love

• It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Nature
  • Blow
  • Grasp

• Telling that guy a secret is like writing it across the sky.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Writing
  • Sky
  • Secret