J.J. Brown Quotes

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.

I can't pick out one single book that had such a profound personal impact.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

Do you always want to be right or do you want to be happy?

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

You have GREATNESS within you, and responsibility to manifest that greatness!

It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print.

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered.

The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.

Don't call 'em dogs. Dogs are loyal and they run after balls.

I own the restaurant. There are a lot of cooks, waiters and waitresses in this restaurant. They worry about their problems. I worry about all the problems.

Spend your life lifting people up, not putting them down.

Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Good posture is the one most important thing anybody can do now to look better.

At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.

If you need to bring in a business partner, make sure your partner brings along some money.

If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

Believe in love at first sight.

A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown.

Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.

Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

I never joined, but I used to go to church now and then. I liked it, because they always passed out plates of money at the end.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto.

The best part of being a mom to me is the unconditional love. I have never felt a love as pure, a love that's as rewarding.

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

Authors, he thought. Even the sane ones are nuts.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

I'm like a really goofy home ec teacher.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.