Brian Oliver Quotes

My therapist played your interview in front of everyone I know. I was the only one who hadn't seen it. I had no idea what was going on and everyone stared at me the whole time. I had to watch that interview with my father standing over my shoulder. It was so embarrassing."
Brian crossed his arms over his chest and raised an eyebrow. "My love for you is embarrassing?"
Miracle of miracles, I managed to keep a straight face. "There's such a thing as subtlety, Brian. You could benefit from a few lessons on the subject."
I'd been doing well, but when Brian's face fell into a pout I burst into laughter. "I loved it. ~ Kelly Oram

Brian Oliver was hot on TV. In person, he was downright mesmerizing. ~ Kelly Oram

Nothing happens for a reason. Everywhere is chaos...Terrible things just happen and you'd better get out of the way when they do.--Oliver ~ Nicholas Gannon

Like a soft cloak of dark velvet, buttoned and studded with stars, the last night of spring lay soft over the ancient sandstone Abbey of Redwall. ~ Brian Jacques

To succeed in the business of the future we have to become the very people we are trying to reach ~ Brian Solis

...life brings you everything at once. You can be in misery because of the misery of your daughter at the same time as you're exhilarated by a new romance, a romance that feels like the first act of a
new life. ~ Brian Morton

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point. ~ Brian Eno

Success in life is in direct proportion to what you do after you do what you are expected to do. ~ Brian Tracy

Welcome to Abortion Town! ~ Brian K. Vaughan

Who pepper'd the highest was surest to please. ~ Oliver Goldsmith

Did you ever notice that all machines are made for some reason?" he asked Isabelle. "They are built to make you laugh, like the mouse here, or to tell the time, like clocks, or to fill you with wonder like the automaton. Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was made to do." Isabelle picked up the mouse, wound it again, and set it down. "Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken. ~ Brian Selznick

It wasn't fair, he thought. The world of pro sports was stuck in a time warp, still in the 1950s as far as sexuality went, even as the rest of the country, save for small pockets of deliberately cultivated ignorance, moved on, got over it. What kind of life are we going to have? Brian thought. Then he laughed at the thought of himself as a football wife, hanging out with the other wives and working on a charity cookbook. "What? ~ Brad Vance

I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again. ~ Brian Eno

that was how plenty of people felt in 634 BC in Rome, as well, when they were convinced that the city was destined to collapse after 120 years of existence. It is how people have felt at countless points in history since then. Try searching Google's library of digitised manuscripts for the phrase 'these uncertain times', and you'll find that it occurs over and over, in hundreds of journals and books, in virtually every decade the database encompasses, reaching back to the seventeenth century. 'As a matter of fact,' Watts insisted, 'our age is no more insecure than any other. Poverty, disease, war, change and death are nothing new. ~ Oliver Burkeman

For all the people who have infected me with amor deliria nervosa in the past
- you know who you are.
For the people who will infect me in the future
- I can't wait to see who you'll be.
And in both cases:
Thank you. ~ Lauren Oliver

It's funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you've always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else. ~ Brian Joyce

And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep, A shade that follows wealth or fame, And leaves the wretch to weep? ~ Oliver Goldsmith

The victory is always sweeter ... winning things with friends. ~ Brian O'Driscoll

Acne is a bigger problem than injuries. ~ Brian Clough

He wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'. ~ Oliver Sacks

Is this why we write and read, in the end, in order to find new words for the things we feel but do not have words for? ~ Brian Doyle

Persecution happens when we stand in the face of our enemy. Friendship with the world is to conspire with that same enemy. ~ Brian Reynolds

Brian leaned in, hands braced on the edges of her wheelchair. No farmers, or I'm coming in with everything I've got to save you from your own foolishness ~ Ronie Kendig

Sorry is one of the worst words of all: it hardly ever means what you want it to" -Mia ~ Lauren Oliver

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

One thing people often forget when making a documentary is that, in a sense, you still have to cast, find a star, and it has all of those built-in challenges. ~ Brian Lindstrom

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings. ~ Mary Oliver

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do? ~ Brian Eno

If you don't want to worship a guy you can beat up, then I might humbly suggest you reconsider Caesar and the Greco-Roman narrative. It sounds like 'Christ and him crucified' is not for you. At least not yet. ~ Brian D. McLaren

Love yourself. Then forget it.
Then, love the world. ~ Mary Oliver

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.