Brandon Mull Quotes

She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

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• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Feel

• I pick my actors primarily based on my gut-feel. They could be rank newcomers or established stars, but if I feel they'll do justice to my characters, they are on. I think Bollywood is now looking towards Kollywood for new faces, and, to my mind, Suriya will be a very successful crossover star because he's very versatile.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Mind
  • Justice
  • Star

• In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Enemy
  • First

• I actually hate shopping.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Actually

• Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Music
  • Popular
  • Try

• You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Know
  • Play
  • Baseball

• Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Enemy
  • Thoughtful

• And fathers, . . . listen to [your returned missionary sons], and connect with them in regular, focused conversation. Talk with them in depth about their feelings and desires. Pray with them and give them blessings as they face the important decisions in their future.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • Important
  • Father
  • Future

• No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Years

• Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

  

  William McDonough
  • Trying
  • Earnest
  • Redesign

• Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Education
  • Marriage
  • Condition

• It's good to listen to lots of different stuff, just whatever you like. The first two records I ever bought were Alice Cooper, Killer and Jethro Tull, Aqualung. That's two weird records to begin with, but I think they hold up well.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Stuff
  • Records
  • Listen

• Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Heroes
  • Performed

• Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Confuse
  • Telescopes
  • Our Minds

• If you can't send money, send tobacco.

  

  George Washington
  • Money
  • Tobacco

• In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

  

  John Calvin
  • Sins
  • Hidden
  • Imagining

• Whites have traded their culture for power.

  

  Eileen O'Brien
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Traded

• There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one's work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

  

  Moliere
  • Honor
  • Reward
  • Acclaim

• ...to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Future
  • Dream
  • Black

• God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • God
  • Invent
  • Murderers

• All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Important
  • Architecture
  • Century

• She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Reward
  • Rescue
  • Refused