Brian Quotes - Page 2

• I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them. Brian Fitzgerald, talking about his children.

  Jodi Picoult

  Children, Parenting, Talking

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are only so many skaters like Brian Orser. Nobody is going to just step into his shoes.

  Kurt Browning

  Shoes, Steps, Skater

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

  Mary Bell

  Mother

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

  Vince Flynn

  Haig

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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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• 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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• 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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• If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

  Paul McCartney

  Fifth, Ifs

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• THE LONG WALK is a raw, wrenching, blood-soaked chronicle of the human cost of war. Brian Castner, the leader of a military bomb disposal team, recounts his deployment to Iraq with unflinching candor, and in the process exposes crucial truths not only about this particular conflict, but also about war throughout history. Castner's memoir brings to mind Erich Maria Remarque's masterpiece, All Quiet on the Western Front.

  Jon Krakauer

  Military, War, Team

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Jul 09, 2012

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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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• 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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• The same tantalizing guile and sublime skill....[The series is] reinforced in its claim to be one of the major literary works of this century....Only two other writers that this reviewer can think of have each created an entire, discrete and compelling world, a totally believable entity which one might wish to inhabit, and they are Joyce and Proust. It is not pretentious to place Patrick O'Brian in the first canon of literature.

  Kevin Myers

  Thinking, Skills, Two

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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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• What's that?' Beck shoved his back ineffectually against the glass door, suffering under the weight of a huge box. 'Your brian.' I already have a brain.' If you did, you'd have opened the door for me.' I shot him a dark look and let him shove against the door a moment longer before I ducked under his arms to push it open. 'What is it really?' Schoolbooks. We're going to educate you properly, so you don't grow up to be an idiot.; I remembered by intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Growing Up, School, Dark

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• So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  What If, Stronger, Awful

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• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

  Brian Aldiss

  Creativity, Men, Years

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• Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you want to know what modern soldiers see when they look at their world, read this book.

  Larry Heinemann

  Book, Grace, Soldier

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