Brenna Yovanoff Quotes

When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known.

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• The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Nightmare
  • Fairytale
  • Turned

• Take good care of our fragile planet.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Good
  • Care
  • Take

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Wilderness
  • Empire

• I think it's important that things are flawed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Important
  • Think
  • Things

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Work
  • Girl
  • Band

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Children
  • Why
  • Still

• Your body has space within you that cannot die.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Die
  • Space
  • Body

• I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Feel

• I like having a bunch of different experiences. I don't want to do just one thing for the rest of my life.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Different
  • Want

• We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Dream
  • Know
  • Possibilities

• If you're a sports fan, it is really cool when you see the best-on-best for hockey at the Olympics.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Cool
  • Sports
  • Hockey

• Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Quiet
  • Gone
  • Pirates

• For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Know
  • Paid
  • Haircut

• I live in Florida, and I live on a small lagoon. I sit and look out at the water all day - that's what my desk is.

  

  Ted Bell
  • Live
  • Small
  • Day

• The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

  

  Al Franken
  • Money

• Death can only be profitable: there’s no need to eat, drink, pay taxes, offend people, and since a person lies in a grave for hundreds or thousands of years, if you count it up the profit turns out to be enormous.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• 'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dark

• I believe in status symbols.

  

  Brooks Stevens
  • Believe

• No matter where I go, in this country or outside of this country, there are young people, and I'm always surprised that young people know about me and Colt 45.

  

  Billy Dee Williams
  • People
  • Country

• My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.

  

  Dean Stockwell
  • Children
  • She
  • Mother

• A beggar's mistake harms no one but the beggar. A king's mistake, however, harms everyone but the king. Too often, the measure of power lies not in the number who obey your will, but in the number who suffer your stupidity.

  

  Richard Scott Bakker
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Lies

• When you name something, you take away some of it's power. It becomes known.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Power
  • Name