Brown Quotes - Page 25

• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado, or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man's table.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Food, Men, Turkeys

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1848). “Don Quixote”, p.30

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• My metaphor for acting in movies - not on stage because it's completely different on stage - is to put colors on an easel for the director to paint his own painting with in the editing room, long after I've left. You buy me for red and black, so I better give you really great red and black, but if I can give you purple, pink, green and brown too, I will.

  Scott Glenn

  Color, Purple, Editing

  Source: collider.com

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• The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  Mark Dunn

  Dog, Uncles, Lazy

  Mark Dunn (2010). “Ella Minnow Pea”, p.8, MP Publishing

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• At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  New York, Wall, Self Confidence

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• Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Book, Twilight, Sunshine

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.99

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• Brown people and black people and red people swarmed through our great halls, until those who were white looked simply faded-out human beings beside them. Indeed, I came to see that white is not a color in skin any more than in textiles, and if it had not quality, it had no value even for humanity. I saw that color in skin had a certain advantage in strength and warmth as a means of beauty.

  Candace Wheeler

  Mean, White, Color

  Candace Wheeler (1918). “Yesterdays in a Busy Life”

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• I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

  Wes Bentley

  Knowing, Culture, Pops

  "There Be Dragons Review, and Interview With Wes Bentley". Interview with Richard Karpala, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 6, 2011.

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• For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.

  Brendan O'Carroll

  People, Pieces, Middle Of Nowhere

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

  Russell Banks

  War, Rights, Political

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• [T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

  Camille Paglia

  Media, Feminist, Humanity

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• I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and one I want to see it. A month later I had an agent. Another month later I had a three book deal with Little Brown.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Book, Rejection, Three

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• The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Motivational, Men, Monkeys

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Assignment in Eternity”, Pocket Books

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• Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts.

  E. B. White

  Children, Spring, Heart

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, — its hue, first brown with blossoms, then emerald with leaves, — we appreciate the vanishing beauty of the bare boughs. In our favored temperate zone, the trees denude themselves each year, like the goddesses before Paris, that we may see which unadorned loveliness is the fairest.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Spring, Years, Paris

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1863). “Out-door Papers”, p.238

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• The emancipation of man is the emancipation of labor and the emancipation
  of labor is the freeing of that basic majority of workers who are yellow, brown and
  black.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Yellow, Black

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2013). “Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

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• Prince William looks good in uniform and Man-at-Hackett black and white tie (he has grown up wearing it constantly); less certain in his suits, which sometimes look borderline archaic; and variable in casual. But completely comfortable in the Sloane uniform of non-designer jeans and chocolate-brown suede loafers. He'll look fine in Boden.

  Peter York

  Black And White, Men, Jeans

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• I never had a hat, never wore one, but recently was given a brown suede duck-hunting hat. The moment I put it on I realized I was starved for a hat. I kept it warm by putting it on my head. I made plans to wear it especially when I was going to do any thinking. Somewhere in Virginia, I lost my hat.

  John Cage

  Thinking, Hunting, Ducks

  John Cage (2010). “A Year from Monday: New Lectures and Writings”, p.116, Wesleyan University Press

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• I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Hair, Average

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• Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

  Totie Fields

  Happiness, Dresses, Gravy

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• People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

  Louise Brown

  Somewhere Else, People, Come Up

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• Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

  Ian Anderson

  Blue, Denim, Awful

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• We even switched to a newly-formed church across the town that gave one hundred and twenty trading stamps each time we attended. (We now worship a brown and white chicken with a sunburst on its chest.)

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, White

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “At Wit's End”, p.60, Fawcett

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• Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

  Moss Hart

  Dark, Boredom, Poverty

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• I used to imagine what it would be like to do what Jim Brown was doing. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Tony Dorsett. I used to imagine what it would be like to be like a Walter Payton. I was imagining Emmitt Smith doing exactly what they were doing.

  Emmitt Smith

  Would Be, Imagine, Used

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• I like green or brown eyes. Tall but not overwhelmingly so. I like men who do yoga and meditate.

  Kristin Davis

  Yoga, Eye, Men

  "Charlotte's web" by Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2002.

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