Carol Rifka Brunt quote: "The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible."

That's the secret. If you always make sure you're exactly the person you hoped to be, if you always ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Pro...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Because maybe I don't want to leave the planet invisible. Maybe I need at least one person to rememb...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Don’t you see? It’s like we’ve known each other all these years. Without even seeing each othe...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Toby was right. Finn was my first love. But Toby, he was my second. And the sadness in that stretche...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I really wondered why people were always doing what they didn't like doing. It seemed like life was ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Hayır, hayır. Yalnızca dünyanın en mutsuz insanları sonsuza dek yaşamak ister, çünkü hayat...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Please promise to take the very best care of my only girl. With so much love my heart might split in...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch y...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love o...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I came to a sketch where the space between my arm and Greta’s arm, the shape of the place between ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.

I fidgeted around with th...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

The bed was warm and ordinary and perfect, and it had been such a long, long day. Probably the longe...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I don’t like to overhear things, because, in my experience, things your parents are keeping quiet ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I thought it was good to test yourself sometimes. It was good to see how much you could take.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

…there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

She was wired into my heart. Twisted and kinked and threaded right through.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

There are dark black buttons tattooed on my heart. I’ll carry them for the rest of my days.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Sometimes it feels good to take the long way home.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

But maybe I am. Maybe that’s exactly what I am. Maybe all I wanted was for Toby to hear the wolves...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

You could try to believe what you wanted, but it never worked. Your brain and your heart decided wha...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

My mother gave me a disappointed look. Then I gave her one back. Mine was for everything, not just t...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

If my life was a film, I’d have walked out by now.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I thought of all the different kinds of love in the world. I could think of ten without even trying....
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best plac...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I want to imagine wrinkled time, and forests thick with wolves, and bleak midnight moors
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I didn’t know how to seal a promise with a dead person.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

There was something so lonely about that moment, everyone around me completely involved in this thin...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

There was at least some small beauty in what we’d done.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Then we left, just me running with my sister, the wolves at our backs.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

As the elevator door started to close, she stood and put up one hand to wave goodbye. That’s one o...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clande...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

The kinds of things I want don't cost money.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

Once you know a thing you can’t ever unknow it.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

You can build a whole world around the tiniest of touches.
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never t...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT

The main influence on voters should be a series of robust debates among the candidates. It's a f...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portra...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

A comparison of the average professional baseball salary to the national average salary over the las...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I've seen terrorism close up, but I don't live in a state of terror at all. I'm comforta...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. Whe...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

It's much easier to get disgusted when you've already banked 20 million bucks.
DOUGLAS BRUNT

New York is big, fast, energetic, and has the most and best of everything. While it can push the sen...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I've thought about bringing my children to retrace my own steps of the morning of September 11, ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I th...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I'm really troubled by the prevalence of single-sport specializations. I want my kids to do as m...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

It's common knowledge that professional athletes earn extraordinary incomes. What is less known ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Dad met Mom in 1983 during the lead-up to the 1984 games. She was an Olympic downhill skier. In thos...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything diss...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.
DOUGLAS BRUNT

A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to cur...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

New York can get on top of you if you don't have much money, but if you have money, it's kin...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Spend more time working before you write page one. Then, the story - at least parts of it - will fee...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Don't write more than 3 hours at a time. I write three hours in the morning, 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. Ot...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Your spouse, a sibling, a friend need to read your drafts. They have to be people unafraid to tell y...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Dad was a retired hedge fund manager who made enough millions to retire and focus on my game. Before...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

Don't copy another writer's style, because that is not authentic, and that's how it will...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older t...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

I prefer a change of surroundings anyway, and I like to be around some energy and white noise, so I ...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

If you look at top players - Steffi Graf, Andre Agassi - so many had a parent who was domineering to...
DOUGLAS BRUNT

We feel pretty well, we just need to keep strong nerves. We had a hard beginning. I don't know why. ...
MAUREEN BRUNT

We don't have to wear as much advertising.
MAUREEN BRUNT

They're still a very good team. They've beaten us before, so I wouldn't count them out.
MAUREEN BRUNT

It was the best night of my life so far.
MAUREEN BRUNT

We've kind of made curling our dream. If other people like it, it validates the fact that we've put ...
MAUREEN BRUNT

I can't think of anything else I'd want to have on my body for the rest of my life.
MAUREEN BRUNT

You can't really insult us anymore. It is an Olympic sport.
MAUREEN BRUNT

It gets to you after a while. But we're going to the Olympics.
MAUREEN BRUNT

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.
CAROL BURNETT

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.
CAROL ALT

But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it ha...
CAROL BURNETT

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.
CAROL BURNETT

We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.
CAROL BURNETT

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can sur...
CAROL BURNETT

When things are a disappointment, try not to be so discouraged.
CAROL BURNETT

When I get tired, I start eating things that I wouldn't normally crave, like biscuits, because t...
CAROL VORDERMAN

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattres...
CAROL BURNETT

The photoshoot glitz and TV studio make-up isn't the real me. I spend most days at home in Brist...
CAROL VORDERMAN

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star look...
CAROL BURNETT

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be fa...
CAROL BURNETT

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.
CAROL BURNETT

I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a...
CAROL BURNETT

I do the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle every morning to keep the old grey matter ticking...
CAROL BURNETT

I've always been able to recount things, and I have a really good memory about dialog and what p...
CAROL BURNETT

Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, whic...
CAROL BURNETT

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
CAROL BURNETT

On the good days, my mother would haul out the ukulele and we'd sit around the kitchen table - i...
CAROL BURNETT

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.
CAROL BURNETT

Just scream! You vent, and the body just feels good after a good old yell.
CAROL BURNETT

I'm so happy with what has happened in my life.
CAROL BURNETT

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.
CAROL BURNETT

It is the instinctive wish of most American businesspeople, even those unlikely to be directly affec...
CAROL LOOMIS

When they are employed wisely, derivatives make the world simpler because they give their buyers an ...
CAROL LOOMIS

. . . while men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray...
CAROL GILLIGAN

I can't be bothered to go to the gym, though. I honestly just can't be bothered - it's t...
CAROL VORDERMAN

In the 1987 stock market crash, according to the conclusions of the official Brady report, colossal ...
CAROL LOOMIS

I was a very lonely child and it's funy but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I fel...
CAROL LEE

I think we're here for each other.
CAROL BURNETT

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
CAROL BURNETT

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your e...
CAROL LEWIS

I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
CAROL LEIFER

Comedy is a tragedy plus time.
CAROL BURNETT

Abortion is a skillfully marketed product sold to women at a crisis time in their life. If the produ...
CAROL EVERTT

...As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evi...
CAROL TAVRIS

The real problem between the sexes is that for men, sex is a gender-underliner, they need it for the...
CAROL CLEWLOW

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT

The product, abortion, is skillfully marketed and sold to the woman at the crisis time in her life. ...
CAROL EVERETT

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.
CAROL MATTHAU

In 1980, aided by $1.5 billion in loan guarantees from the U.S. government and his own pitchman rout...
CAROL LOOMIS

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and...
CAROL GILLIGAN

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of...
CAROL BELLAMY

I would love to have written Roger Zelazny's first five books of 'Amber.' What a great i...
CAROL BERG

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols,...
CAROL KANE

Limited partnerships are required to amend their filings whenever important changes, such as the adm...
CAROL LOOMIS

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had ...
CAROL BURNETT

Some managements do not even think of buybacks as an option. The idea of shrinking their equity base...
CAROL LOOMIS

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.
CAROL BURNETT

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by a...
CAROL BURNETT

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.
CAROL SHIELDS

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to ha...
CAROL GUZY

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructe...
CAROL GILLIGAN

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT

Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to te...
CAROL BURNETT

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.
CAROL BURNETT

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out ag...
CAROL BURNETT

Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past...
CAROL BROAD

There needs to be a nationwide awareness programme for all NHS staff, to educate them about dissocia...
CAROL BROAD

... in some sense, she ignored her physical self, as if her body were merely something impersonal ve...
CAROL LEE

My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things t...
CAROL LEE

I was diagnosed with hypoglycemia, an abnormal decrease of sugar in the blood. Eventually I learned ...
CAROL ALT

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.
CAROL ALT

I don't eat celery. I eat raw milk, cheeses.
CAROL ALT

We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating th...
CAROL BELLAMY

I suddenly had this really mad desire to have an affair with a woman. I was divorced. I was childles...
CAROL LEIFER

But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so ...
CAROL VORVAIN

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's o...
CAROL VORDERMAN

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.
CAROL BURNETT

Just be your authentic self because there's nothing sexier or more beautiful than that.
CAROL LEIFER

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your...
CAROL ALT

The speed and trajectory of BlackRock's ascent have been breathtaking.
CAROL LOOMIS

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a ...
CAROL BURNETT

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-roo...
CAROL BURNETT

I enjoy worldbuilding very much. I generally start with an approximation. With 'Flesh and Spirit...
CAROL BERG

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
CAROL CHANNING

I had gone to nursing school at Northampton Community College in my hometown of Bethlehem, Pennsylva...
CAROL GUZY

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Ir...
CAROL GUZY

She suffered. She suffered a whole lot. And at one point I was praying for her to be released. You k...
CAROL BURNETT

When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go
CAROL BURNETT

She was a mountain girl, ... We brought some of her ashes here and placed them next to F.C. Jones. I...
CAROL BURNETT

People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate grati...
CAROL BURNETT

I don't have false teeth. Do you think I'd buy teeth like these?
CAROL BURNETT

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
CAROL BURNETT

She said, 'Mama, if I can take it back ...,
CAROL BURNETT

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's whe...
CAROL BURNETT

I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. Th...
CAROL BURNETT

I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like M...
CAROL BURNETT

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'
CAROL BURNETT

The good thing about a dealer's derivatives portfolio is that it is marked to market.
CAROL LOOMIS

I believe in lieu of the Katrina situation last week it is even more important that we are prepared ...
CAROL MILLER

The faculty will be a little more relaxed this semester, because we know that problems are inevitabl...
CAROL MILLER

I came in Tuesday and took a tour of the building for the first time. My first impression was that E...
CAROL MILLER

Many people have been able to return to their homes. We expect to spend most of today assessing dama...
CAROL MILLER

People have really improved their recycling efforts.
CAROL MILLER

It was very moving and extremely needed, ... We are a conservative campus where this is not talked a...
CAROL MILLER

The goal is to have at least one quarter of the amount of trash that would have gone to the landfill...
CAROL MILLER

So far this year we have taken in 108.5 tons of recyclable versus the estimated 65.6 tons collected ...
CAROL MILLER

The students were definitely the first priority, that's why they have finished all the classrooms. T...
CAROL MILLER

We could always use more, but we are getting back on schedule after the holiday.
CAROL MILLER

Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM. I will only get one or two or three days worth ...
CAROL MICKELSEN

Europe is very close to what you would find in the U.S. If you're going to a very small town in Amer...
CAROL MICKELSEN

[Europe is closest to North America in its density of ATMs.] ATM machines are all over the place. Th...
CAROL MICKELSEN

In Poland, we could pay for groceries with a credit card. Surprisingly enough, campgrounds take char...
CAROL MICKELSEN

In Poland, we could pay for groceries with a credit card, ... Surprisingly enough, campgrounds take ...
CAROL MICKELSEN

Say you get to some place and you can't find an ATM, ... I will only get one or two or three days wo...
CAROL MICKELSEN

Response times will be better.
CAROL MEYER

You as a resident need to make yourself prepared and knowledgeable.
CAROL MEYER

I'd say we're probably one of the most prepared counties in the country.
CAROL MEYER

It's awesome. I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity. I very much favor the Philharmonic.
CAROL MEYER

Trauma funds aren't going into the San Gabriel Valley, but paying for the trauma patients that get t...
CAROL MEYER

We both do all the work, but we each have the places where we shine.
CAROL MCNEELY

We think every home needs at least one, or maybe two or three, decorative rooms.
CAROL MCNEELY

We tailor finishes to people's personalities.
CAROL MCNEELY

We want people to know that we do more than stripes and polka dots.
CAROL MCNEELY

She was a feisty woman. She was a clown. She made everyone laugh. Everyone loved to be around her.
CAROL MARSH

It all happened very fast. In 10 minutes, the whole thing was gone.
CAROL MARSH

This is how close we were.
CAROL MARSH

The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

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The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible.

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