J. Carter Brown famous quotes

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Point Break #Promise #Breaking Promises

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Cat #Fur #Way

Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Earth #Want

I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Luck #Important #Dimensions

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

#Art #Spirit #Kindred

I think everybody has a bent, and the key is to follow that bent. So much human wastage comes from people who are doing things with their lives that they really aren't happy with.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Thinking #Keys #People

No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Garden #Smell #Giving

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
-- J. Carter Brown

#Triumph #East #Association

Everyone has a breaking point, Riley. He hit his long time ago. But you didn't. He smiled and sqeezed her hand.'Because of you.' Weaving his arm around her waist, they walked up the stairs in tandem. - Riley Blackthorne and Paul Blackthorne

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

It was really a pleasure to play someone who's literally pushed past her breaking point repeatedly.

Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.

I don't want to beg or promise you things I can't give you. There isn't much of me to give, but what I have is yours. This is all up to you, Sadie. If you want me, I'm yours. If you can't do this, then I'll walk away and leave you alone. I swear.

Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.

There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.