Craig Brown Quotes

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

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• My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Day
  • Week
  • Grandfather

• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Nature
  • Responsibility

• Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Act
  • Legitimate
  • Lobbyists

• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Always
  • Sense
  • Curiosity

• I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Things
  • Influence
  • Keep

• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • May
  • Man
  • Hero

• I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Book
  • Desire
  • Language

• Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.

  

  Raf Simons
  • World
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Comedy

• My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Love
  • Job
  • Fear

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Rest
  • France

• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Die

• In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Long
  • Money
  • Business

• I came out of what we romance writers call The Romance Ghetto, because we get so little respect.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Respect
  • Romance
  • Ghetto

• For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Painting

• I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Knows
  • Seek
  • Corners

• I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Purpose
  • Curiosity

• One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

  

  Craig Brown
  • Fun
  • Purpose