Brandon Mull Quotes

Kendra returned her attention to the frantic parade of trees. Her parents were leaving on a seventeen-day Scandinavian cruise with all the aunts and uncles on her mother’s side. They were all going for free. Not because they’d won a contest. They were going on a cruise because Kendra’s grandparents had asphyxiated.

Brandon Mull

• Free
• Attention
• Grandparents
• Cruise
• Asphyxiation

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Think
  • Funny
  • Should

• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Women
  • Family
  • Think

• I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Women
  • Never
  • Played

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Realize

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Movies
  • Year
  • Studio

• I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fly

• I want to walk the red carpet at the Oscars. I am in awe of the ceremony, and winning an Oscar would be the most magical moment of my life. I want to make that speech and hold that trophy and say, 'This is for you, India.' That's the line I have rehearsed for God knows how long. But that has to be for a Hindi language film.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• Virgin America flyers tend to be more likely to be using a mobile device and tapping social networks - even at 35,000 feet.

  

  Sam Altman
  • America
  • Social
  • Feet

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • School
  • Father

• You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like, I sound just like my dad. But that's literally my vocal chords. I can't sound like anything else... I sound like him, but I act like myself.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • People
  • Dad
  • Myself

• Here's what I've learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Single
  • Said

• And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Hate

• Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • World
  • Great

• The habit of ubiquitous interventionism, combining pinprick strikes by precision weapons with pious invocations of high principle, would lead us into endless difficulties. Interventions must be limited in number and overwhelming in their impact.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • High
  • Habit

• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions that differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Environment
  • Opinions

• Come on, I'm from Iceland; I don't do hip-hop.

  

  Bjork

• I'm fourteen years old; that's almost half-way to thirty. I need my own space.

  

  Alex Mack
  • Space
  • Need
  • Own

• It's funny, as a little kid, you look up to those guys who you play as in 'Madden,' and now to see myself in the game, it's an honor.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Up
  • Game
  • Funny

• Shocked disbelief greets suggestions that many women may take pleasure in rape fantasies, established long ago by Nancy Friday in her pioneering 1973 study, My Secret Garden, and dramatized today by the staggering mass-market popularity of Harlequin Romances, where heroines are overwhelmed by passionate, impetuous men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• Kendra returned her attention to the frantic parade of trees. Her parents were leaving on a seventeen-day Scandinavian cruise with all the aunts and uncles on her mother’s side. They were all going for free. Not because they’d won a contest. They were going on a cruise because Kendra’s grandparents had asphyxiated.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Free
  • Attention
  • Grandparents