Brandy Alexander Quotes

I'm always brilliant after the fact. ~ Shelly Fredman

The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

This feat has been achieved largely by appealing to the racism and vulnerability of lower-class whites, a group of people who are understandably eager to ensure that they never find themselves trapped at the bottom of the American totem pole. ~ Michelle Alexander

Sauvage, sad, silent,
as timid as the sylvan doe,
in her own family
she seemed a strangeling. ~ Alexander Pushkin

He'd learn that destiny and love speak the same language, and it's for that reason that heartbreak is experienced. ~ Felix Alexander

The physical world - the world of stone and brick - is indifferent to our suffering, to our dramas, she thought. Even a battlefield can be peaceful, can be a place for flowers to grow, for children to play; the memories, the sadness, are within us, not part of the world about us. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver. ~ Douglas Alexander

[T]he departing world leaves behind ... not an heir, but a pregnant widow. ~ Alexander Herzen

Time trouble is blunder time. ~ Alexander Kotov

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments. ~ Alexander Hamilton

...you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined. ~ Alexander Chee

I think it's really finding that belief in yourself, where you just have it no matter what's going on, no matter what anyone else says. I think that's the challenge, is to really have that belief in yourself. ~ Brandy Norwood

There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest ... ~ Alexander Hamilton

I knew it was a risk but what I was after was a novel that is about the feeling that comes with a coincidence in real life - that you feel as if something divine has intervened and has arrived with a message. ~ Alexander Chee

There is no community service in 'Seinfeld.' But rather than lauding that, I think it shows the insane banality of it. ~ Jason Alexander

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental. ~ Samuel Alexander

Alexander assured her, 'Eva, none of us know our children. Because they are not us. ~ Sue Townsend

You must be the Italian cow now sharing my last name." He looked her up and down with disgust. As I stood, Mel glared, telling me to back the fuck down or else.

She moved from behind the desk and stood directly in front of his face, causing his bodyguards to step forward as well.

"Old man, you're in my house. That makes you a fucking guest. I don't owe you shit and you will respect me if you want my respect. My name is Melody. Mrs. Callahan if it suits you, but..." She leaned in until their noses were almost touching. She was shorter, but the black heels helped. "If you even call me a cow again I will kill you painfully slow. I don't care how many motherfucking body guards you have."

Two of his bodyguards drew their guns and the last had a knife hidden in his sleeve.

Shit. I thought as she pulled her gun. Declan and Neal were already backing her up. My father just rolled his eyes and took my mother into the corner, all while drinking his brandy. This was ridiculous.

"Lower your weapons," Grandfather said as he glared into her eyes. "The Italian cow..."

The moment he said it, three bullets went flying into them. One in the chest, one in the wrist and the other the knee; they all went down like cards. You don't out gun Mel.

"What the fuck? Where did she pull the gun out from?" Neal whispered. "I swear, she's a motherfucking ninja. ~ J.J. McAvoy

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters. ~ Alexander Downer

She then played a short 5-second clip of Gruber, saying the following, that a part of the Obamacare passed because 'the American people are too stupid to understand the difference.' ~ Alexander Viets Griswold

She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game.
"Like chess?" she asks once.
"No," her father says. "Not like chess. ~ Erin Morgenstern

I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me. ~ Anne Alexander

Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take - and sometimes tea. ~ Alexander Pope

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs. ~ Alexander Lowen

Transiency is stamped on all our possessions, occupations, and delights. We have the hunger for eternity in our souls, the thought of eternity in our hearts, the destination for eternity written on our inmost being, and the need to ally ourselves with eternity proclaimed by the most short-lived trifles of time. Either these things will be the blessing or the curse of our lives. Which do yon mean that they shall be for you? ~ Alexander MacLaren

It bothers him most at times like this, in the bottom of the brandy bottle and the quiet of the night. ~ Erin Morgenstern

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous. ~ Alexander Herrmann

Suddenly, Kaiser Corbane came outta nowhere! They thought they were safe! THEY WERE WRONG! ~ Alexander Engel-Hodgkinson

The most beautiful part of the day isn´t always the brightest. ~ Jill S. Alexander

I know what keeping a promise means." "No, you only know what making a promise means," Alexander said. "You are very good at making the promise. It's keeping the promise you have a problem with. ~ Paullina Simons

Charlotte
told me that afternoon. It sucked, but we weren't as close then, so it
didn't suck as much. I didn't know then, you know?"
"Know what?"
"What it meant to have a friend - that having a friend would
change me, make me a better person - make me more real. How
was I to know? ~ Shannon Lee Alexander

If you really want me to be safe, maybe it's time."
"I'd just feel safer if you'd start sleeping in a coffin."
Just then my door creaked open.
Billy's expression turned to surprise.
"Get out!" I said, hopping off the bed. "Uh ... we are making up lyrics to a song."
But that didn't keep Billy out. Instead he was totally interested.
"You're writing a song? That's so cool. I want to hear it."
"It goes, 'Safer in a coffin, and if your brother doesn't leave, he'll be in one too. ~ Ellen Schreiber

of the large numbers of people who applied for jobs, and she wondered how employers managed to select from such a wide field. Was everyone interviewed? And even if that happened, how did one distinguish one applicant from another when they all probably had roughly the same qualifications? ~ Alexander McCall Smith

Peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God. ~ Alexander MacLaren

Fill your life with what you love. That's my hope for you. ~ Shannon Lee Alexander

In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse. ~ Harold Ross

I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards. ~ Alexander Wang

Identical twins
are no different
from everyone else,
except we look and
sometimes sound
exactly alike. ~ Kwame Alexander

To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry. ~ Alexander Calder

A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning. ~ Lloyd Alexander

And although she'd glibly remarked that you couldn't stand still, was this actually true or was it a hollow axiom as false and misleading as any other trite saying? Why should one not stand still? If the position in which one found oneself standing was a satisfactory and comfortable one? She felt no need, no need at all to move on from being Mma Ramotswe of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, wife that great mechanic, Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

I'm mad at your idiot coworker. Not you. I'm sorry. I don't know what I was thinking. Why would you cheat on me?"

"Because you force me to use words like piqued," Alexander replied, deadpan. ~ S.H. Marr

With brief amusement, she recalled how she'd assumed a rogue of his decadent reputation would be pale and weak from too many late nights, too much brandy, and too many women. If that regime resulted in this superb specimen, every doctor in the country should recommend it. ~ Anna Campbell