Brian Connelly Quotes

So at my old school," he said. "There was this kid on the baseball team. People thought, I don't know. They saw that he went to some website or something." ... "They made it impossible for him to play. Every day, the found another way to mess with him. Then one Friday after school, they locked him in the storage closet." He winced, as if remembering and I knew. I knew then. "All night long and the whole next day. A tiny, dark, disgusting airless space. His parents thought he was at the away game and someone told the coaches he was sick, so no one even looked for him. No one knew he was trapped in there." His chest was heaving and I was remembering how he told me he didn't used to have claustrophobia and now he did. "He was really good too, probably the best player on the team or could have been. And he didn't even do anything. The guy just went to these sites and someone saw. Do you get it? Do you get what it would mean for me? The assistant captain? I want to be captain next year so maybe I can graduate early. No scholarship. No nothing. These guys aren't" - he made finger quotes - "evolved. They're not from Northern California. They don't do all-day sits or draw pictures." The dagger went straight in. "It's brutal in a locker room. ~ Jandy Nelson

I was still alive. Ha! Take that kidnappers. Still alive. Maybe it was my butt that was feeding me. I always thought it was kind of round. I bet my body was eating up all the fat stores from my butt now. Yeah. See, having a big ass is a good thing. Good, good, good. They should put that in magazines. Why diet? Why stay thin? If you ever get kidnapped and left for dead, your fat ass could save your life! ~ Kate Brian

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character. ~ Brian Tracy

I love objectivity when mine. ~ Brian Spellman

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. ~ Brian May

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed. ~ Brian Tracy

One day, J. Howard Pew of Sun Oil called Read to tell him that he had $136,000 that he had to get rid of, for some arcane tax reason, in the next twenty-four hours-and would Read, along with Howard Kershner of Christian Economics (a more right-wing religious education group Pew also supported) figure out among themselves what they could best do with it? Thanks. And they did. ~ Brian Doherty

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships. ~ Brian Tracy

Show me any health professional - great and not so great - who says they don't make mistakes or haven't made one in years, and I'll show you someone who has trouble admitting the truth. ~ Brian Goldman

As guides for the children in our life, we need to find ways to connect their growing understanding of God's Word and His truth to an authentic faith lived life-on-life with others. We need to keep pointing them back to Scripture as the truth in their lives. At the same time, we need to recognize that God has also given us a gift through them - an opportunity to see how powerful a childlike faith can be. ~ Brian Schulenburg

Any fool can see what's there. You need to see what is not there. ~ Brian Staveley

The body inherits what the mind engages. ~ Brian S. Woods

But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this. ~ Brian Michael Bendis

Don't let dialog about your company happen without your perspective. ~ Brian Regan

With Metavoid, I wanted to move forward with the Lustmord sound, rather than recreating past works such as Heresy or Black Stars, I wanted to create a sound that was new, but which was also unmistakably Lustmord. It's for others to decide if I failed or succeeded. ~ Brian Williams

The best way to make change is to know how something works. If you're going to go build something or change whatever it is, if you don't know how it works and you're trying to go make a change in it, the first thing you're doing is you're spending time figuring out how it works. The same thing happens in organizations. ~ Brian Krzanich

We don't see many films in which someone with schizophrenia is the main character. ~ Brian Lindstrom

The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term, is the indispensable prerequisite for success. ~ Brian Tracy

As long as you are following God's will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline? How many whales do you suppose God will deign send to swallow you? When does God run out of whales? ~ Brian Evenson

Every little kid that steps on the court or the field has aspirations to go pro. I think being a pro basketball player is the best job. The thing I had to realize was that I can't do every dream that I have. ~ Brian McKnight

The detailed, scientifically acceptable studies of Dr. Joseph B. Rhine at Duke University, of Dr. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, Department of Psychiatry, of Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler at the College of the City of New York, and of many other serious researchers prove that this can be done. ~ Brian L. Weiss

What's more, sports are not, of course, always designed strictly to minimize the number of games. Without remembering this, some aspects of sports scheduling would otherwise seem mysterious to a computer scientist. ~ Brian Christian

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know that you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited. ~ Brian Tracy

My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives. ~ Brian Blessed

War is an infidel; it holds no loyalties, neither to king nor countryman. She is a whore, selling herself to the highest bidder. Victory is bought in blood and steel. ~ Brian A. McBride

As mortal humans we are born with a death sentence anyway, so what difference does a little poison make? Why not take a chance you will survive the ordeal and make something significant of your life? ... p330 ~ Brian Herbert

The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence. ~ Brian Tracy

How about you then, Brian, any action?'
'Not really.' This sounds a bit feeble, so I add, nonchalantly, There is this girl, Alice, and she's invited me to stay with her tomorrow, at her cottage, so . . .'
'Her cottage? says Spencer. 'What is she? A milkmaid?'
'You know, a house, in the country, her parents' . . .'
'So you're shagging her then?' asks Tone.
'It's platonic.'
'What's platonic mean then?' asks Spencer, even though he knows.
'It means she won't let him shag her,' says Tone. ~ David Nicholls

The more love you put off to the world in all aspects, the more it will return to you. ~ Brian A. Jackson

We're facing a danger that economics is rigorous deduction based upon faulty assumptions. Science after science gets that way from time to time. When it does, we're in real trouble. ~ W. Brian Arthur

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, and then everything burst into flames. ~ Brian P. Cleary

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up ~ Brian Tracy

What were we, but kids with apartments and jobs anyway? ~ Brian Joyce

I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding? ~ Brian K. Vaughan

No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example. ~ Brian Oldfield

You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll. ~ Brian Acton

I can't stand clutter. I can't stand piles of stuff. And whenever I see it, I basically just throw the stuff away. ~ Brian Greene

Just love me, Myrna," he whispered against her lips. "Please."

~Brian "Master" Sinclair ~ Olivia Cunning

If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great. ~ Brian Eno

Grew up in a small town where there was only one crazy guy. He didn't even go insane doing anything good, like going to 'Nam or having an extended acid trip. Turns out - legend has it - he just had some bad cheese. ~ Brian Posehn

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. ~ Brian Aldiss

Not many people bought Velvet Underground LPs, but those who did, started a band. ~ Brian Eno

Let us dance, Lee Starfinder, and let the fates decide."
-The Godling Chronicles, ~ Brian D. Anderson.

Even though David Pottruck has gone to this unbelievable career where he is a billionaire, there is always a new hurdle. He never sits there saying, 'I'm the best.' ~ Brian Kilmeade

Until you win a series, it's difficult to place yourself in that elite group of great Lions players. It's not enough to produce one-off performances or be nearly-men. ~ Brian O'Driscoll

The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface
within consciousness. (As compared with the natural displays of compassion by other creatures that is not necessarily 'within consciousness. ') That's the only difference. We didn't create compassion, but it's flowing through us-or it could. The phase change that we're in seems, to me, to depend upon that comprehensive compassion unfurling in the human species. ~ Brian Swimme

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always
find it. ~ Brian Tracy