Brash Quotes:

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

- Mahathir Mohamad

topic: Nice, People, Polite, Brash

She said 'I love you' as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.15, Penguin

topic: Love You, Secret, Said, Brash

The brash unbridled tongue, the lawless folly of fools, will end in pain. But the life of wise content is blest with quietness, escapes the storm and keeps its house secure.

- Euripides

source: Euripides (1954). “The Bacchae: And Other Plays: Ion, The Women of Troy, Helen, The Bacchae”

topic: Wise, Pain, House, Brash

As a general rule, when something gets elevated to apple-pie status in the hierarchy of American values, you have to suspect that its actual monetary value is skidding toward zero. Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent. Same thing with work: would we be so reverent about the 'work ethic' if it wasn't for the fact that the average working stiff's hourly pay is shrinking, year by year ...

- Barbara Ehrenreich

topic: Zero, Work, Motherhood, Monetary Value, American Values

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

- Martina Navratilova

topic: Country, Beach, New York, Palm Springs, Hedonistic

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

- Imogene Coca

source: "1950's TV Star Imogene Coca Dies at 92" by Donna Tommelleo, abcnews.go.com.

topic: Butterfly, People, Comedian, Brash

We were brash young fellows. I was always hanging with the older crowd anyway. The musicians were the Hip Cats, and I was hanging with them anyway. I Just started out real early.

- Bootsy Collins

topic: Real, Cat, Musician, Brash

You might have thought that a world such as ours, so hard-nosed and cynical and brash, would have very little time for transcendence, spiritual values of goodness and compassion, gentleness, and caring, but we actually do experience them.

- Desmond Tutu

source: Source: www.egonzehnder.com

topic: Spiritual, Caring, Compassion, Spiritual Values, Brash

To the degree I was too brash, Too self-confident or too pushy, I apologize.

- Newt Gingrich

source: "What does Newt's past say about his future?". www.nbcnews.com. December 06, 2011.

topic: Self, Degrees, Apologizing, Pushy, Brash

When you travel you realize how small you are. You need to be humble. You can't be a big, brash American. You think you have problems. You leave the States and you see people have bigger problems than you, much worse problems than you. They have nothing to eat, they have no water, they have no shelter, they have a terrible government. So you realize we complain about the government, we complain about food, whatever it is, and go somewhere else and you think, "Now I realize," you say, "Why people want to come to America."

- Paul Theroux

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Humble, Thinking, America, Bigger Problems, Brash

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.

- Mel Brooks

topic: Hatred, Rude, Toes, Periphery, Brash

The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline in the back of his throat, and maybe it wasn't over, and maybe he could feel her hand in his again and hear her loud, brash voice contort itself into a whisper to say I-love-you as if it were a secret, and an immense one.

- John Green

topic: Love, Heartbreak, Hands, Say I Love You, Brash

Humor is hope's companion in arms. It is not brash, it is not cheap, it is not heartless. Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit.

- Ogden Nash

topic: Thinking, Heartless, Survival, Brash

Even I make mistakes." I put on my brash, overconfident face. "I know it's hard to believe—kind of surprises me myself—but I guess it has to happen. It's probably some kind of karmic way to balance out the universe. Otherwise, it wouldn't be fair to have one person so full of awesomeness.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2008). “Shadow Kiss: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.46, Penguin

topic: Mistake, Believe, Balance, Awesomeness, Shadow Kiss

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

- Nicholas Sparks

topic: Lost Love, Taken, People, Perception Of Others, Brash

I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do you know what you want. Even after you've done it you can't say clearly if that was what you'd wanted or just something that happened to you, like weather.

- Joyce Carol Oates

source: Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “I Am No One You Know: And Other Stories”, p.152, Zondervan

topic: Weather, Adults, Done, Girlhood, Brash

A first novel should be brash and ambitious, and announce the arrival of a new talent.

- Stuart Woods

topic: Ambitious, Firsts, Talent, Arrivals, New Talent

I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.

- Danica Patrick

source: Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com. August 26, 2011.

topic: Emotional, Thinking, Lessons, Brash

I liked working in advertising, but don't believe my taste in art, such as it is, was entirely formed by TV commercials. And I don't feel especially conflicted enjoying a Mantegna one day, a Carl Andre the next day and a brash student work the next.

- Charles Saatchi

topic: Art, Believe, One Day, Tv Commercial, Brash

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem ...

- Thomas Pynchon

source: "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.

topic: Law, Murphy, Brash

Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, those dinners and holidays—I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you.” The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. “You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot…I love watching you deal with your family. You’ve always been everything I thought a woman should be. And I have wanted you every second of my life since we first met.

- Lisa Kleypas

topic: Memories, Home, Holiday, Brash

I done me best when I was let. Thinking always if I go all goes. A hundred cares, a tithe of troubles and is there one who understands me? One in a thousand of years of the nights? All me life I have been lived among them but now they are becoming lothed to me. And I am lothing their little warm tricks. And lothing their mean cosy turns. And all the greedy gushes out through their small souls. And all the lazy leaks down over their brash bodies. How small it's all! And me letting on to meself always. And lilting on all the time.

- James Joyce

source: James Joyce (1967). “A shorter Finnegans wake”, Viking Pr

topic: Mean, Night, Thinking, Tithe, Cosy

Adrian might be brash and impertinent, but he knew how to move. Maybe dance lessons had been part of growing up in an elite tier of Moroi society. Or maybe he was just naturally skilled at using his body. That kiss has certainly show a fair amount of talent.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.33, Penguin

topic: Growing Up, Moving, Kissing, Brash

Donald Trump is brash and loud and courts a lot of media attention.

- Sarah Ellison

topic: Media, Attention, Loud, Brash

My image is a statement of the symbols of the harsh, impersonal products and brash materialistic objects on which America is built today. It is a projection of everything that can be bought and sold, and practical but impermanent symbols that sustain us.

- Andy Warhol

source: Andy Warhol, Annette Michelson, B. H. D. Buchloh (2001). “Andy Warhol”, p.37, MIT Press

topic: Brash

I was every Londoner's stereotypical idea of a brash, vulgar American. When I got here, it turned out that London was the Wild West, and New York was like London at the height of the Victorian era, in which everyone was far more obsessed with table manners and status-climbing than they are in London. In London, everyone was just crawling over this blizzard of cocaine. Here, if you have more than a glass of wine with your meal, people refer you to Alcoholics Anonymous.

- Toby Young

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: New York, Wine, Ideas, Londoners, Alcoholics Anonymous

[Michael] Chabon, who is himself a brash and playful and ebullient genre-bender, writes about how our idea of what constitutes literary fiction is a very narrow idea that, world-historically, evolved over the last sixty or seventy years or so - that until the rise of that kind of third-person-limited, middle-aged-white-guy-experiencing-enlightenment story as in some way the epitome of literary fiction - before that all kinds of crazy things that we would now define as belonging to genre were part of the literary canon.

- Emily Barton

topic: Crazy, Writing, Ideas, Third Person, White Guys

Don Karnage-he's one of my all-time favorites. He's so brash and so bold and so arrogant-and he just doesn't know what he's doing.

- Jim Cummings

topic: Arrogant, All Time, Knows, Brash

What is the big deal about Eminem? Since when is offensive language a reason for being unpopular? I like the fact that Eminem is brash and angry and politically incorrect. At least he has an opinion. He's stirring things up. He's provoking a discussion. He's making people's blood boil. He's reflecting what's going on in society right now. That is what art is supposed to do.

- Madonna Ciccone

topic: Art, Blood, People, Stirring Things Up, Brash

Death is not earnest in the same way the eternal is. To the earnestness of death belongs precisely that remarkable capacity for awakening, that resonance of a profound mockery which, detached from the thought of the eternal, is an empty and often brash jest, but together with the thought of the eternal is just what it should be, utterly different from the insipid solemness which least of all captures and holds a thought with tension like that of death.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: Profound, Together, Different, Insipid, Brash

I don't think I've done any profound work yet... People ask me, 'How would you want to be remembered?' I tell them I don't want to be remembered! I'm not here to become a Madhubala or receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. I'm not that kind of a person. And I'm not brash about it; it's just the way I am.

- Bipasha Basu

topic: Thinking, Awards, People, Lifetime Achievement, Brash

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

- Larry Wilmore

source: Source: www.wbur.org

topic: Brash

I was doing a Broadway play, and I was really new to this business. The Broadway play was my first job, literally. The play next door was a musical called Falsettos. The director got hired to direct this Michael J. Fox movie and was looking for a kid who could play brash and salty and mean [in Life With Mikey].

- David Krumholtz

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Jobs, Mean, Kids, Mikey, Falsetto

The modern child may early in his or her existence have natural inclinations toward spirituality. The child may have imagination, originality, a simple and individual response to reality, and even a tendency to moments of thoughtful silence and absorption. All these tendencies, however, are soon destroyed by the dominant culture. The child becomes a yelling, brash, false little monster, brandishing a toy gun or dressed up like some character he has seen on television.

- Thomas Merton

topic: Children, Character, Reality, Dominant Culture, Absorption

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

- Jennifer Armintrout

topic: Acceptance, Body, Apologizing, Fat Women, Melissa

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

- Ilka Chase

topic: Insecure, Agency, Peculiar, Twentieth Century, Advertising Agencies

Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable plots of misery... had I known yet I would have loved you, your brash and insolent beauty, your heavy comedic face and knowledge of sweet delights, but from a distance I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Sweet, Distance, Heart, Insolent, Brash

From the first time he'd met her, he'd sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people's art and ideas.

- Charles de Lint

topic: Art, Ideas, Air, Brash, Easy To Get

Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence

- Saul Williams

topic: President, Common, President Bush, Brash

I filmed 'Albatross' before I got 'Downton.' It's a coming-of-age movie about this girl who leaps into this family's life, like a whirlwind. She's ballsy and brash and wonderful, it was such an amazing character to play.

- Jessica Brown Findlay

topic: Girl, Character, Play, Coming Of Age, Albatross

Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate his success. What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that`s what gets p... Judith Regan.

- Judith Regan

topic: Eye, Years, Editors, Duplicate, Regan

My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football. . . . Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.

- Camille Paglia

topic: Sports, Football, War, Brash

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

- Bella Abzug

source: Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

topic: Mother, Men, Names, Man Hater, Jewish Mother

'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down and... obsequious.

- Matt Groening

topic: Memories, Tv Shows, Down And, Bombastic, Brash