Brandon Mull Quotes

It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

Brandon Mull

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• I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Home
  • Light
  • Exercise

• What's interesting is to be sexy but not know it. You'll be in a restaurant, and some girls will walk in and you can tell that they really want to be sexy. It's written on their faces because that's all they want to show. There's a fear that one might not look further.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Fear
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• Everything can be satirized.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Everything

• The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Different
  • True
  • Nature

• When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Training

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • People
  • Story
  • Cinderella

• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Change
  • Things
  • Worry

• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Art
  • Interesting
  • More

• And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • Children
  • Future

• As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

  

  Dan Barber
  • World
  • Great
  • Food

• Our lives are in God's hands. We have no control. We can't control Him by using the Bible or cross as a good luck charm without a thorough reformation of heart and life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Trying
  • You
  • Creating

• The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.

  

  George Nolfi
  • Feeling
  • Story
  • Create

• God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap opera. And to save Fablehaven, I would read a book, okay, are you happy?" You had best be careful, Seth," Grandma warned. "The love of reading can be contagious." I just lost my appetite," he declared.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Love
  • Read
  • Emergency