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

  Nice, People, Polite

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

  John Green

  Love You, Secret, Said

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

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• 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

  Wise, Pain, House

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

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• 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.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Mother, Humorous, Careers

  Ms., Oct. 1986

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• 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

  Country, Beach, New York

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

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• 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

  Butterfly, People, Comedian

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

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• 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

  Real, Cat, Musician

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• 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

  Spiritual, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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

  Newt Gingrich

  Self, Degrees, Apologizing

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

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• 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

  Humble, Thinking, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• 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

  Hatred, Rude, Toes

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• 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

  Love, Heartbreak, Hands

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• 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

  Thinking, Heartless, Survival

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• 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

  Mistake, Believe, Balance

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

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• 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

  Notebook, Lost Love, Taken

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 24, 2011

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• 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

  Weather, Adults, Done

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

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

  Stuart Woods

  Ambitious, Firsts, Talent

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• 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

  Emotional, Thinking, Lessons

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

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• 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

  Art, Believe, Next Day

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

  Thomas Pynchon

  Law, Murphy, Theorems

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

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• 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

  Memories, Home, Holiday

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• 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

  Mean, Night, Thinking

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

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• 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

  Growing Up, Moving, Kissing

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

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

  Sarah Ellison

  Media, Attention, Loud

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  America, Today, Materialistic

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

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