J.J. Brown Quotes

Life is taking you somewhere, listen to the messages, they will repeat until you follow their call.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.

Two warm bodies and one cold bottle of champagne will produce something more wonderful than would happen without the champagne.

Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are.

I would sooner live in a cottage and wonder at everything than live in a castle and wonder at nothing!

You know you can't hope yourself a better life - you must take yourself there.

When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.

A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Love doesn't drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.

Takes a man or a woman to say I'm sorry, and it takes a fool to walk away.

You can have your titular recognition. I'll take the money and the power.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

There are no extraordinary people only ordinary people who do extraordinary things with what they've been given

Im not really Type A, but A minus.

I did maths for a year at university. I don't think I was very good at it. And some people would say it shows.

Many of us write because we are readers and have grown up in a long tradition, and we want to be able to add to that extraordinary flow of interpretations of the world.

In a perfect world, mothers would remind their daughters each morning of how beautiful their strong noses are, or how special their curly red hair is.

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

We had lost the art of communication - but not, alas, the gift of speech.

Physical and psychological spaces of an organization work in tandem to define the effectiveness of the people within it

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

We seldom enjoy leisure we haven't earned.

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

I love to run smart essays and commentary. But it doesn't replace the other kind of reporting

Foolproof systems to not take into account the ingenuity of fools.

Define your priorities, know your values and believe in your purpose. Only then can you effectively share yourself with others.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

WANT shows up in conversation - EXPECTATION shows up in behavior.

Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire.

I'm just going to go out there knowing my teammates are depending on me to get the job done. I've got to go out and get it done, no letting down.

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print

[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didnt learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

Every so often, let your spirit of adventure triumph over your good sense.

Canada's Far North is where I knew I had to go.

Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.

There have been a couple of jobs I've done without thinking, without being engaged, and they just stink.

I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

The real reason Milton went blind was to avoid reading unsolicited manuscripts.

Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.

Wearing hats has become like fine art for me.

In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.

You have to know what is right for you and go after it regardless of what others say.