Brandon Mull Quotes
There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.
Quotes to Explore
-
The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
-
I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
-
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
-
The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
-
I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
-
I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic conservative family. It took me a while to come out to myself, and not long after that, I came out to them. I think that it really couldn't have been a better experience. They were all immediately supportive.
-
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
-
I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
-
I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
-
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
-
I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
-
They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now.
-
In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.
-
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
-
To be honest, I haven't had a lot of time off.
-
I'm very interested in getting inside the heads of people society discards, people on the fringe, especially immigrant kids. We dismiss them without getting into details of who they are.
-
This is yet another example of terrorists' cynical and callous disregard for human life.
-
My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.
-
Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
-
We tell the for-profit sector, 'Spend, spend, spend on advertising until the last dollar no longer produces a penny of value,' but we don't like to see our donations spent on advertising in charity. Our attitude is, 'Well look, if you can get the advertising donated (at four o'clock in the morning) I'm okay with that, but I don't want my donation spent on advertising, I want it to go to the needy,' as if the money invested in advertising could not bring in dramatically greater sums of money to serve the needy.
-
The brand of the future...is patient, consistent, connected, and trusted. The new brand is based on the truth that only comes from experiencing the product, not just yelling about it. Word of mouth is more important (by a factor of 20) than TV advertising, and the remarkability word of mouth demands comes from what we experience, not from spin or taglines or a campaign slogan.
-
There are no insect eggs in my food.” Mrs. White reiterated. You should use that in your advertising,” Nate suggested.
