Brian Quotes - Page 2

• The Sun, each second, transforms four million tons of itself into light, giving itself over to become energy that we, with every meal, partake of. For four million years, humans have been feasting on the Sun’s energy stored in the form of wheat or reindeer.
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  Rob Brezsny

  Light, Years, Giving

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.47, Frog Books

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• Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun; the rest is infrared and some little ultraviolet, perfectly apparent to many animals, but invisible to me. A nightmare network of ganglia, charged and firing without my knowledge, cuts and splices what I see, editing it for my brain. Donald E. Carr points out that the sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brian: 'This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Cutting, Animal

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• Brings [O'Brian's] achievement to a new height....Such is O'Brian's power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next. That is the real test. Any contemporary novelist should recognize in Patrick O'Brian a Master of the Art.

  Alan Judd

  Art, Real, Imagination

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• Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time?
  Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time trying to convince fans it's actually me. No one ever believes it. I've spent about four hours, giving away intimate details about myself that I'd never tell a journalist, in an effort to prove that it's me.

  Brian Molko

  Real, Believe, Giving

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• Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

  Mary Bell

  Mother

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• There are pop managers, and then there's Simon Cowell, who isn't gay, Jewish or particularly riveting. He's not without interest but he doesn't exactly have the hinterland of, say, Brian Epstein.

  Peter York

  Gay, Pops, Interest

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• I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.

  John Lennon

  Music, Cameras, Speak

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• Nick looks into Brians hollow gaze. That's what's going on here brian. The devil's figured out a way to keep peoples souls trapped here on earth.

  Robert Kirkman

  Soul, Devil, Looks

  Robert Kirkman, Jay Bonansinga (2011). “The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor”, p.251, Macmillan

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• Drummond is many things, and one of those things is a magician. (...) Art is magic, and so is pop. Bill Drummond is a cultural magician, and 45 is his logbook. Shelve alongside Brian Eno's A Year With Swollen Appendices. Hail Discordia !

  Charles Shaar Murray

  Art, Years, Magic

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• One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.

  Vince Flynn

  Haig

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• Every day, every scene, you were like, "My god. I'm doing a scene with Brian Cox today and then I'm onto a scene with Stephen Rea." For us young actors, I think we were all very, very star-struck and impressed by the caliber of everyone who came out.

  James Norton

  Stars, Thinking, Actors

  "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.

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• I would like to wish the England squad every success. I would also very much like to extend those wishes to Martin Johnson, Brian Smith, Mike Ford, John Wells, Graham Rowntree and the rest of the England 2011 World Cup management team who have been fantastic and deserve people to know that.

  Jonny Wilkinson

  Team, Squad, People

  "Jonny Wilkinson announces his retirement from international rugby" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2011.

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• If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

  Ray Bradbury

  Father, Humorous, Dublin

  Ray Bradbury (2000). “Bradbury Stories”

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• When I was seventeen
  I drank some very good beer
  I drank some very good beer I purchased
  With a fake ID
  My name was Brian McGee
  I stayed up listening to Queen
  When I was seventeen

  Homer

  Queens, Beer, Names

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• I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Trying, Tone, Used

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some of you...have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

  Kevin Myers

  Doe, Masters, Beats

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• Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Motivation, Men, Talking

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• Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop.

  Joe Queenan

  New York, America, Interesting

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• Brian seemed to be in a state of confusion. I thought of packing my bags and going home. The squad seemed to me to be rudderless.

  Mike Catt

  Home, Squad, Confusion

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• Head coach of the England team demands management skills that Brian does not have. We had a head coach who wanted one thing, other coaches who wanted other things. The players hadn't a clue what was going on. Somehow we'd managed to turn our World Cup campaign into a Monty Python sketch - called The Life of Brian.

  Lawrence Dallaglio

  Team, Player, Python

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• I think Brian Moore's gnashers are the kind you get from a DIY shop and hammer in yourself. He is the only player we have who looks like a French forward.

  Paul Randall

  Player, Thinking, Hammers

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• He [Brian Fraser] told me that a man must be responsible for any see he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Men, Care, Action

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• We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did.

  John Lennon

  War, Thinking, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Witness for the defense, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore.

  J. K. Rowling

  Defense, Witness

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.

  John Cleese

  Despair, Laura, I Can

  "Fictional character: Brian Stimpson". "Clockwise", www.imdb.com. 1986.

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