quotes about Brandy

“God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.”

Source : Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

“Peace is more than a lofty ideal. It is a practical principle that, with conscious effort, can become a normal part of our lives as we deal with matters both large and small. One habit that prevents inner peace is procrastination. It clutters our minds with unfinished business and makes us uneasy until we finish a task and get it out of the way.”

“You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.”

“Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?”

“I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

“All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.”

“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”

“There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a film about them in a film that feels like reality because people view that in a different way. I like using science fiction to talk about subjects through the veneer of science fiction.”

Source : Interview with Geoff Boucher, herocomplex.latimes.com. January 4, 2010.

“My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.”

“If Helen of Troy could have been seen eating peppermints out of a paper bag, it is highly probable that her admirers would have been an entirely different class.It is the thing you are found doing while the horde looks on that you shall be loved for - or ignored.”