Buck Brannaman Quotes
The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.
Quotes to Explore
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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I don't think I would change anything. I think we've done a fairly good job of remaining sane and making the right decisions.
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I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
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So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.
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I could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.
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'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'
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I should be the Hunger Strikee.
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I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.
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It's true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me - but only because my faults are so enormous.
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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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That which is used - develops. That which is not used wastes away.
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The horse saved my life, so that's kind of why I'll spend the rest of mine trying to help them.
