Sarah Brownlee quote: "I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how I'd never seen anything more beautiful. Green flashed before my eyes; trees, leaves and grass, glittering with raindrops, the tears of angels weeping with sadness and joy; green, the colour of love, to remind me why I'm here."

Anyone who crawls up from the gutter and makes something of themselves, despite the odds and despite...
SARAH BROWNLEE

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

On the night before a triathlon, I normally eat something simple like a pizza. You know where you st...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

The RIM-NTP dispute has become a game of chicken. It's also almost a given that NTP will mightily co...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

AT&T is absolutely on the right track.
BROWNLEE THOMAS

This is clearly an e-commerce strategy. What AltaVista and other portals want to do is attract users...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

Everyone is looking at the U.S. market. U.S. firms like to buy American.
BROWNLEE THOMAS

They'll need a really strong advertiser base. There are people who will pay [a monthly fee] not to b...
BROWNLEE THOMAS

We've already started to put up the fence around the site.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We have a lot of different types of engineering activities that we're trying to place people in. Wha...
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We weren't expecting that to happen so quickly. We were very happy with the decision.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We anticipate that the state will be able to continue to work through this legal process and that th...
BRUCE BROWNLEE

We hope to close on the property this spring and shortly after that begin our construction.
BRUCE BROWNLEE

Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Our capsule is half the size and one-fourth the mass of Genesis,
DONALD BROWNLEE

We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of th...
DON BROWNLEE

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

Virtually all of the atoms in our bodies and in the Earth were in interstellar grains - stardust gra...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We're approaching the end of a fantastic voyage. This is the farthest anything from Earth has travel...
DONALD BROWNLEE

So far, as far as we know Wild 2 is a unique object.
DONALD BROWNLEE

It's fascinating that they're so different.
DONALD BROWNLEE

Comets do blow up unexpectedly,
DONALD BROWNLEE

What was the chance someone would put a g-switch in backward and not be discovered, ... It has got t...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We're in excellent shape. We've done almost everything we have to do in the entire mission...only th...
DONALD BROWNLEE

I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system.
DON BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. Personally, I feel a strong attachm...
DON BROWNLEE

We did this mission to collect the most primitive materials we could in the solar system. We went to...
DON BROWNLEE

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. All of the atoms in our bodies - th...
DON BROWNLEE

What we want to know is how organic molecules actually form in comets and whether they helped delive...
DON BROWNLEE

Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

It's not much, but still it's so much that we're almost overwhelmed. The first grain we worked on, w...
DONALD BROWNLEE

This comet formed at very edge of the solar system ... out by pluto ... and spent all its lifetime o...
DON BROWNLEE

We'll be able to say some things almost instantly. One of the big questions is do comets contain min...
DON BROWNLEE

The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues me...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

We saw many, many, many comet particles that were big enough to see with the naked eye.
DONALD BROWNLEE

When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

The prediction was that we would get a dozen particles larger than human hair size and one particle ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

I want to emphasize that what happened here at Fort Stewart is not just a Fort Stewart issue, ... It...
LES BROWNLEE

We?re using this comet as a library that picked up records and stored them far from the sun at very ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We are approaching the end of a quite fantastic voyage.
DON BROWNLEE

In the coldest part of the solar system, we have found samples that formed at extremely high tempera...
DONALD BROWNLEE

Helen Clark must explain why it is acceptable for a minister who has admitted 'cutting corners' on r...
GERRY BROWNLEE

We believe materials coming out of comets now is the same material that went into comets 4.5 billion...
DON BROWNLEE

We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form und...
DON BROWNLEE

In the coldest part of the solar system, we've found samples that have formed at extremely high temp...
DONALD BROWNLEE

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into...
DONALD BROWNLEE

The community is real jazzed about it. People all over the world, using all kinds of fantastic instr...
DONALD BROWNLEE

This was our first view of the comet dust. We are the first people in the history of the planet to s...
DONALD BROWNLEE

For all the ideas and theories that people might have, we have some real ground truth.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We have always stressed in this mission that we are stardust. Our planet and even our selves have a ...
DONALD BROWNLEE

We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is rea...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

I'm a big gamer, so I love my PlayStation to switch off from triathlon.
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

When they formed, they were either red-hot or white-hot and we found them in the Siberia of the sola...
DONALD BROWNLEE

About 10 per cent of this comet is made of organic materials. We don't know exactly what they all ar...
DON BROWNLEE

You're seeing the very first, absolutely identified comet particle that has ever been seen.
DON BROWNLEE

We are confident [the comet] was made out of the initial building blocks of our solar system.
DON BROWNLEE

We are collecting the actual building blocks the solar system was formed from 4.5 billion years ago....
DON BROWNLEE

We're seeing a variety of things that we know absolutely come from a comet.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We visited a comet, grabbed a piece of it, and landed here this morning. It was a real thrill.
DON BROWNLEE

We're confident that the things coming out [of Comet Wild 2] are the same as those that went in. We ...
DON BROWNLEE

We were stunned when we got to the comet and saw incredible features - steep cliffs, overhanging cli...
DON BROWNLEE

Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain mine...
DONALD BROWNLEE

It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.
DONALD BROWNLEE

We opened the capsule yesterday and it's just full of comet dust.
DONALD BROWNLEE

This is what we looked like 4.5 billion years ago. Comets haven't changed since then.
DON BROWNLEE

The fundamental reason for this mission is that we are collecting what we believe are the best prese...
DON BROWNLEE

We're collecting things that are very ancient and even older than our solar system. We are literally...
DON BROWNLEE

In recent decades, spacecraft have passed fairly close to comets and provided us with excellent data...
DON BROWNLEE

We have successfully collected samples from the comet and we're bringing them home for analysis in l...
DON BROWNLEE

Each year we have 30 to 40,000 tons of primitive material from comets and asteroids that lands on Ea...
DON BROWNLEE

Our mission is called Stardust, in part because we believe some of the particles in the comet will, ...
DON BROWNLEE

We are nearing the end of quite a fantastic voyage.
DON BROWNLEE

There have been better (seasons), definitely. I don't know what to attribute it to. I don't know if ...
ERIC BROWNLEE

We've had a few good years in a row. Maybe it's time for the players.
ERIC BROWNLEE

In college, it was pretty consistent there, too.
ERIC BROWNLEE

I'm usually looking down, into a microscope.
DON BROWNLEE

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

We saw incredible features -- steep cliffs, overhanging cliffs, spires and many other things we had ...
DON BROWNLEE

I was good at swimming until everyone started to grow. The best swimmers are really tall with great ...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was ...
JONATHAN BROWNLEE

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

They're going to be part of the political landscape for some time to come.
GERRY BROWNLEE

For two ministers who are taking different positions to try to hide that difference by climbing in b...
GERRY BROWNLEE

While he may wish to describe it as a mistake, falsification of documents is very clearly a serious ...
GERRY BROWNLEE

I will be writing to the State Services Commission in an effort to get an explanation about how a su...
GERRY BROWNLEE

We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

It has come as a big shock to everyone and it is hard to imagine the club without Scott around.
IAN BROWNLEE

In the fifth the home side were the much more focused of the two and, with a noisy crowd cheering th...
IAN BROWNLEE

Those in medical status, they should be in the improved level of billets, those that are air conditi...
LES BROWNLEE

It is important that these plans be available for implementation when the security conditions and th...
LES BROWNLEE

Public safety remains our principal interest. The Army has demonstrated since 1990 that it can safel...
LES BROWNLEE

If you look at the operational environment in which we're now operating and the one we think we'll b...
LES BROWNLEE

We're going to move to make those improvements.
LES BROWNLEE

To many places around the world, the face of the United States is the face of the American soldier.
LES BROWNLEE

That was real big. This is probably the first time throughout the whole year where he's been in foul...
JUSTIN BROWNLEE

They were either red-hot or white-hot grains, and yet we collected them in a comet, the Siberia of t...
DR. DON BROWNLEE

I just can't believe this actually is a piece of a comet, but it is.
DR. DON BROWNLEE

It's really caught the public's attention, and there's a lot of concern for safety. As more and more...
SEN KARIN BROWNLEE

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: mish...
SARAH CHURCHWELL

When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.
SARAH MLYNOWSKI

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said th...
SARAH VOWELL

The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as t...
SARAH PINBOROUGH

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
SARAH SNOOK

I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
SARAH BRIGHTMAN

We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
SARAH PALIN

Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I ...
SARAH KAY

Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE

If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with a...
SARAH GADON

I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer becau...
SARAH WATERS

Buck up or stay in the truck.
SARAH PALIN

never stop playing
SARAH WINMAN

Things happen. To everyone. No one escapes.
SARAH WINMAN

Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.
SARAH WINMAN

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ...
SARAH PALIN

Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, ...
SARAH CHURCHWELL

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.
SARAH DREW

We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The direc...
SARAH SUTTON

There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing an...
SARAH MCLACHLAN

I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'...
SARAH SILVERMAN

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don...
SARAH PALIN

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or ...
SARAH ZETTEL

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes s...
SARAH SILVERMAN

To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann.
SARAH SHAHI

I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it r...
SARAH PINBOROUGH

I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with...
SARAH PAULSON

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them dow...
SARAH SHAHI

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
SARAH BROWN

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
SARAH ZETTEL

My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hun...
SARAH HALL

Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.
SARAH NOFFKE

It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
SARAH DESSEN

Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear ac...
SARAH HALL

In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers ...
SARAH MLYNOWSKI

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night f...
SARAH ZETTEL

The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfal...
SARAH RAJKOTWALA

To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible ...
SARAH PAULSON

Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humani...
SARAH NOFFKE

You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sort...
SARAH DUNN

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they ...
SARAH FIELDING

[The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]

Reach me down my

If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because ...
SARAH KAY

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...
SARAH DESSEN

Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling ...
SARAH WATERS

Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too ...
SARAH WILLIAMS

But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assum...
SARAH DESSEN

But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open ...
SARAH OCKLER

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
SARAH DESSEN

I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
SARAH KAY

He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that...
SARAH DESSEN

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
SARAH DESSEN

So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, t...
SARAH DESSEN

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...
SARAH VOWELL

If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
SARAH BOSELEY

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single f...
SARAH DESSEN

And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself ...
SARAH DESSEN

You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit.
SARAH DESSEN

But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
SARAH DESSEN

Okay,' he said. He took a breath. 'What would you do, if you could do anything?'
I took a step ...
SARAH DESSEN

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...
SARAH DESSEN

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ...
SARAH DESSEN

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...
SARAH DESSEN

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you anoth...
SARAH DESSEN

But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...
SARAH DESSEN

I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into a...
SARAH DESSEN

I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There we...
SARAH DESSEN

If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
SARAH DESSEN

the truth about forever is that it is happening right now
SARAH DESSEN

Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch...
SARAH DESSEN

I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As lo...
SARAH DESSEN

Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
SARAH DESSEN

We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe...
SARAH DESSEN

What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...
SARAH DESSEN

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
Yo...
SARAH DESSEN

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
SARAH DESSEN

It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You ...
SARAH DESSEN

What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a ...
SARAH DESSEN

Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ...
SARAH DESSEN

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
SARAH DESSEN

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end...
SARAH DESSEN

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it...
SARAH DESSEN

It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the ...
SARAH DESSEN

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...
SARAH DESSEN

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd bet...
SARAH DESSEN

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
SARAH WILLIAMS

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...
SARAH DESSEN

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...
SARAH DESSEN

Don't think or judge, just listen.
SARAH DESSEN

There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those ...
SARAH NOFFKE

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, a...
SARAH DESSEN

How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I...
SARAH DESSEN

Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, w...
SARAH DESSEN

There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifti...
SARAH DESSEN

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and eve...
SARAH DESSEN

She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.
SARAH MAYBERRY

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