Eileen Brennan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
-
I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
-
We who were born were not witnesses to our birth: like death, it is something we are forever after trying to catch sight of.
-
Our economy works really well without an income or a sales tax.
-
I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
-
My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
-
You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, even though I know that I shouldn't. But I'd give just about anything to be able to do it again. To see the horizon again from the back of a dog team would be wonderful.
-
Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.
-
I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at least not to myself. I know I could ride so much better, with more ease, with more finesse. I feel I'm nowhere near as good as I should be.
-
For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
-
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
-
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?
-
Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.
-
If John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan could negotiate with the Soviet Union, then surely a strong and confident America can negotiate with less powerful adversaries today.
-
Arthritis vanishes, myopia gets better, heart illness decreases, asthma disappears, stomachs function properly and the whole catalog of illnesses goes away and stays away.
-
The true sign of decadence is not the collusion of the university and the state (something that is by no means incompatible with honest barbarity), but the theory and guarantee of academic freedom, when in reality people assume with brutal simplicity that the aim of study is to steer its disciples to a socially conceived individuality.
-
Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't really matter to the politicians whether or not we have them. We're just another demographic to try and please, but there's no point if we aren't voting.
-
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
-
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
-
I tried to get us what I thought was the equivalent of a Romo with Quincy Carter in the third round.
-
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
-
Everyone hits bottom their own way.
