quotes about Brady Bunch

“Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.”

“In 1992 I was doing one of my first ever tours and I was in Heathrow airport and I saw these middle-aged musicians who had clearly been on tour for decades, and they all looked haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I vowed to myself that I would never be that person. Flash forward 20 years and I found myself in Heathrow looking haggard and unhappy and unhealthy. I decided I would rather spend my time staying home working on music and making dinner with friends, instead of spending six months in a hotel in a state of depressing suspended adolescence.”

“In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.”

“Games are lost and won in your mind as much as they are on the field.”

“And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.”

Source : Robert Silverberg, Roger Zelazny, Terry Carr, Edgar Pangborn (1973). “An exaltation of stars: transcendental adventures in science fiction”, Ultramarine Pub Co

“Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.”

“Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.”

Source : George Steiner (2010). “Language and Silence”, p.225, Faber & Faber

“The death of a friendship was usually slow and insidious, like the wearing away of a hillside after years of too much rain. A handful of misunderstandings, a season of miscommunication, the passing of time, and where once stood two women with a dozen years of memories and tears and conversation and laughter—where once stood two women closer than sisters—now stood two strangers.”

“I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.”

“We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.”