Brian Houston Quotes

Live transparently. Love authentically. And lead courageously.

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• There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Great
  • Love
  • Wind

• Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Children
  • Love
  • Job

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.

  

  Gary Carter
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • Manager

• If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Love
  • Laughter
  • For Him

• There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Fault

• I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Love
  • City
  • Airport

• Rihanna is always on my playlist. I think she pumps you up and gets the day going. I also love - and I know this doesn't sound like a workout album - the Lumineers, lately, and Taylor Swift.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Love
  • She

• Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Love
  • Man
  • Love Is

• Nothing I do is thought out or planned or premeditated. It's just that I'm breathing and living! You just have to breathe and live.

  

  Banks
  • Live
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Live
  • Family

• Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Dignity

• They call people who love London 'Anglophiles' and people who love France 'Francophiles.' I'd be the New York version of that.

  

  T. R. Knight
  • People
  • Love
  • New

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.

  

  Mahavira
  • Life
  • Live
  • Hurt

• I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Confess
  • Hypocrisies

• I grew up in the suburbs, so I remember arriving at Waterloo and seeing Big Ben and the coloured lights on top of the Southbank Centre and thinking, 'Wow!'

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Laugh

• Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • America
  • Political
  • Fate

• Live transparently. Love authentically. And lead courageously.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Live
  • Love
  • Lead