Brendan Quotes

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.

I'm a drinker with writing problems.

As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.

A picture should capture a moment, a place in time you can return to again and again.

If you will let it, this Blue Willow platter can represent my promise to fill your life with my trust and love and a houseful of children. - Peter Andersen

I loved everything about her, and I didn't care how dark she got. If anything it was what I loved the most, the veil of pain that fell across her face most of the day, and all of the night.

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay

When a woman is attracted to a man, it doesn't matter if he's rich or not.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

Ben knew that no matter how far you run, you're still yourself when you get there.

But if I had to pick another person for her, I'd have to say you, Jess, since I hold you in such high regard. Yes, you would be a good match, but I am the lucky one this time! - Bryan Gifford

I had no idea how free we were. That's how free I was.

We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

The wounded are instruments, singing pain.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld a painter. We have no children except me.

. . . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.

Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.

What the hell difference does it make left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

But it is easy to call a man in love a mad man.

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades.

I like to think of it as this new field. Instead of computer science, it's going to be virtual science.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.