Brenda Novak Quotes

Heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces—but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God’s tender mercies. Love, Phoenix.

Brenda Novak

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• Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Love
  • Done
  • See

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Love
  • I Love

• Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Country
  • Love
  • Man

• After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• What I love about New York is just the electricity I feel right away.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Love
  • Feel
  • Right

• I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that's what I write about.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Together
  • Day

• Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Mind
  • Remember

• There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

• I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Listening

• I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Love
  • Road
  • Story

• I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Love
  • Art
  • Healthy

• I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Up
  • God
  • Women

• Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • God
  • Man
  • More

• The brain isn't like the heart. They learned how to transplant a heart. The brain is more complex.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Heart
  • Brain
  • Learned

• There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• There's such an extreme feeling to be in love, especially in quite an emotionally destructive relationship, where you're both kind of really bad for each other, but you love each other so much. Those extreme emotions, I think, can only be described with extreme imagery.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Love
  • Feeling
  • Relationship

• Many of us think in terms in parental determinism: 'If I push all the right buttons my kids are going to turn out OK.' I want to instill in myself and my people a wonderful dose, not of carelessness, but of God's sovereignty. He knows the hairs on your kids' heads.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • People
  • God
  • Kids

• I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Company
  • Artists
  • Level

• I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

  

  Colin Quinn
  • World
  • Work

• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Free
  • Secret

• Heart of mine has been shattered in a million pieces—but even during the worst of times, I had you. One of God’s tender mercies. Love, Phoenix.

  

  Brenda Novak
  • God
  • Heart
  • Love