Brown Quotes - Page 33

• The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Food, Yellow, White

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• I made jokes about kissing Murphy Brown. But if that's what cost me my job, my wife will probably say, "Hey asshole, I told you so".

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Jobs, Kissing, Wife

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

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• James Brown and Frank Sinatra are two different quantities in the universe. They represent two different experiences of the world.

  Amiri Baraka

  Two, Different Experiences, World

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• To the Memory of those faithful brown slave-men of the plantations throughout the South, Daddy's contemporaries all, who during the war while their masters were away fighting in a cause opposed to their emancipation, brought their blankets and slept outside their mistresses' doors, thus keeping night-watch over otherwise unprotected women and children -- a faithful guardianship of which the annals of those troublous times record no instance of betrayal.

  Ruth Stout

  Children, Memories, Betrayal

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• June marked the end of spring on California's central coast and the beginning of five months of dormancy that often erupted in fire. Mustard's yellow robes had long since turned red, then brown. Fog and sun mixed to create haze. The land had rusted. The mountains, once blue-hued with young oaks and blooming ceanosis, were tan and gray. I walked across the fallen blossoms of five yucca plants: only the bare poles of their stems remained to mark where their lights had shone the way.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Nature, Spring, California

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• O'er hill and field October's glories fade;
  O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly;
  The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade,
  Where naked branches make a fitful shade,
  And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie.

  George Arnold

  Lying, Autumn, Branches

  George Arnold, “October”

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• Life is legal tender, and individual character stamps its value. We are from a thousand mints, and all genuine. Despite our infinitely diverse appraisements, we make change for one another. So many ideals planted are worth the great gold of Socrates; so many impious laws broken are worth John Brown.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Character, Law, Broken

  Louise Imogen Guiney (1897). “Patrins, to which is added An inquirendo into the wit & other good parts of His late Majesty King Charles the Second”

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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 shoes don't make it.

  Frank Zappa

  Fashion, Shoes

  Song: Brown Shoes Don't Make It

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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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• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Dog, Clever, Home

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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• I love when people walk into my house and start grinning: "This is too much - this is so you!" Why give people brown cardboard when you can give them embroidered, crystal-flecked organza?

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  People, Giving, House

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• The scumbags are taking over the streets. I don't know what David Cameron and Gordon Brown are going to do about it. It all goes back to the Thatcher (Margaret Thatcher) years. It sounds like a cliché but that's when the rot set in.

  Noel Gallagher

  Years, Sound, Scumbags

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

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• The happiest times in my life were the days when I was traveling with Les Brown and his band.

  Doris Day

  Band

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

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• If you're white, you're alright.
  If you're brown, stick around.
  but if you're black, oh baby.
  Get back, Get back, Get back.

  Huddie William Ledbetter

  Baby, White, Black

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• Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know

  Gregory Isaacs

  Sweet, Nice, Artist

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• Tom Walls' buddies remain an isolated minority, except during times of economic or social stress, when a mass following develops to blame cranky sociopaths for the problems besetting society. If it weren't for brown-nosing evil firebrands, he would have no friends. The ideas backing up his rejoinders are extremely superficial and sex-crazed.

  Linda Chavez

  Sex, Wall, Stress

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• There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake.

  Jacob Latimore

  War, Epic, Artist

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• When we heard we were topping the bill over James Brown we couldn't believe it. We tried for two days to get it changed round - I mean you can't follow an act like that.

  Mick Jagger

  Believe, Mean, Two

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• Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

  Lenny Bruce

  Giving Up, Men, Names

  "The Lenny Bruce Interview, Jill Bourque’s How We First Met and Stage Time With Steven Alan Green". jewishjournal.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy. How can I ever forget them.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Forget, Snoopy, Charlie

  "Farewell to Peanuts and Schulz" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2000.

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• I'm not James Brown. I'm not Sam Cooke. I'm Charley Pride. I'm just me and that's what you got.

  Charley Pride

  Pride, Sam Cooke

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• We all have a large stake in preserving our democracy, but I maintain that those without power in our society, the black, the brown, the poor of all colors, have the largest stake not because we have the most to lose, but because we have worked the hardest, and given the most, for what we have achieved.

  Charles Rangel

  Color, Black, Democracy

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• The huge turnout for Live 8 here and around the world proves that thanks to the leadership from people like Tony Blair and Gordon Brown the world is beginning to demand more action on global health and poverty.

  Bill Gates

  People, Around The World, Poverty

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• I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.

  Miles Davis

  Kids, Rocks, Years

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