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I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.


Maira Kalman

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KELLI GARNER But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.
DAVID SARNOFF If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.
JOE ROGAN Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.
WILL CHRISTOPHER BAER she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and gl...
DODIE SMITH It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
NAVJOT SINGH SIDHU A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault...
ANUJ SOMANY A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Sad music, I always thought, is more beautiful than other music. But at the same time, I am in my pe...
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
BRAM STOKER 'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.
JUSTICE SMITH The movies make the brooding guy the hero – the guy with problems the guy who carries a gun, the g...
E. LOCKHART Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm...
G.A. AIKEN Now, brooder is an interesting word. People who worry a lot in silence are known as brooders. But th...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS It's a brooding melancholy that haunts me.
DAVID GUTERSON I would like to break out of this 'dark, brooding' image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
GABRIEL BYRNE I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
GABRIEL BYRNE Beer Man is a classic, ... He's got such a great sense of humor.
DAVE STOCKTON ... too much brooding, not enough doing.
TIMOTHY FINDLEY I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy...
VICTORIA BECKHAM I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy...
VICTORIA ADAMS The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of ...
EDWARD ABBEY The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.
THOMAS FULLER The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and lau...
BERT WILLIAMS It’s like they were worried that I’d be alone all day brooding and painting my cabin black or so...
MELISSA WALKER A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Fuck you and them... I don't like this rules!
DEYTH BANGER There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstruc...
DAVID LEHMAN To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and...
BERT WILLIAMS The measure of a man is what he does with power.
PLATO By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER I should think it's pretty sophisticated. Any judge with a sense of humor and a very clever man, whi...
ANDREW SINCLAIR Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was...
ROBERT GALBRAITH We don't want to take ourselves too seriously. We're not like this gothic, brooding, sitting-around-...
DAN ANDRIANO Dissents are appeals to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of another day.
CHARLES EVANS HUGHES One is a young, pockmarked wiseacre with a smirk that won't quit, the other an aging but still gorge...
JOY HOROWITZ Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy waste...
KATE ATKINSON It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kin...
MAIRA KALMAN Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man
OSCAR WILDE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. I love a man with a great sense of humor and who is intelligent - a man who has a great smile. He ha...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six...
JAMES WAN Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
HARRY S TRUMAN A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualitie...
CATHERINE DENEUVE Partial Insomniac. Nice Person. Sometimes Brooding. ... Partially inspired. Nice Idea. Sometimes Bor...
JOHN CUSACK To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY I'd love to be a man for a day, just to see what it's like.
BRITTANY MURPHY The beauty of a woman may be the root of all evil. but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to...
ARVIND YADAV A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog -- keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil
DAVID SARNOFF Her gaze on Vane, Patience wished she could see his eyes. His expression was unreadable. Shoulders p...
STEPHANIE LAURENS They are more isolated, and it can breed brooding. It would make them feel so much better...to do so...
GORDON SAUER It was his power, his gift, suddenly to shed all superfluities, to shrink and diminish so that he lo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to fee...
JOHN IRVING The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geom...
ELLSWORTH KELLY Brooding on that one word or idea multiplies into several and the opening up of several words
SUNDAY ADELAJA Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.
ROHINTON MISTRY Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
AMY LOWELL Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evi...
UHLAND For a while he sat idly outside his door brooding in the spring sun.

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THEODORE DREISER Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving f...
CHARLES DICKENS The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to l...
ARNOLD BENNETT The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to ...
ARNOLD BENNETT The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to li...
ARNOLD BENNETT What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp al...
DAVID GUTERSON Ah,” Jamie says. “We have reached the Brooding YA Hero section of the book.”
“The first...
MICHELLE HODKIN In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyb...
DANIEL H. WILSON I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going f...
BRYAN CALLEN The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace ...
VIN DIESEL I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my ...
BARBARA CROOKER I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense
THORNTON WILDER The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
PETER NIVIO ZARLENGA The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
Humor to a man is like a feather pillow.It is filled with what is easy to get but gives great comfor...
IRISH PROVERB People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I&#...
LENNY KRAVITZ The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes
ADOLF HITLER "The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes"
ADOLF HITLER Death. I have fed that foul beast a feast, and yet it still hungers.
EMMANUEL M ARRIAGA, FOUNDRA: THE RIFT WAR Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tac...
JEAN RHYS It's not about who you sleep with, or whether you know about sports or tools or have a pearl-wearing...
BEN MONOPOLI You must always be open to new experiences; by this means, your physical and etheric bodies will be ...
RUDOLF STEINER Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
MARK VAN DOREN Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him ...
FRANCIS BACON, SR. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him f...
FRANCIS BACON SR. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

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