I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
I have always played the intense, brooding characters but I am not like that in real life. — Nikitin Dheer Copy Share Image
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I'm a pretty upbeat person. I think I sometimes get cast as these brooding types because I bring light and joy, which… — Jake Epstein Copy Share Image
I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be… — Tyler Hilton Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes. — Bryan Callen Copy Share Image
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the… — Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps Copy Share Image
Lights of ships moved in the fairway-a great stir of lights going up and going down. And farther west on the upper… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really… — Morgan Saylor Copy Share Image
Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not… — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One reason most people never stop thinking is that mental frenzy keeps us from having to see the upsetting aspects of our… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to feel very guilty. But the Rev. Mr.… — John Irving Copy Share Image
It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
And in the same way, FDR's not much of a father. Although the children in all their memoirs really talk about what… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
Life was not given for indolent contemplation and study of self, nor for brooding over emotions of piety: Actions and actions only… — Immanuel Hermann Fichte Copy Share Image
You can not make yourself whole again by brooding one hundred percent of the time on the darkness of the world. We… — Ivan van Sertima Copy Share Image
The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist. — Ellsworth Kelly Copy Share Image
The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wants the brooding, dangerous guy you… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
“Tough guy, if brooding was a sport, you'd have gold medals with scowling faces lining the walls of your room.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favourite character would have to be 'Ash,' because I love my brooding bad boys. But a certain snarky talking cat runs… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I'm not ashamed of being a bubbly, funny person. I think that's as valid as being the dark, brooding, tortured Oscar-nominated one. — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
Optimism…is neither weak nor naive. It can be tough and pure and earned just as clearly as any brooding existential despair. — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time. — David Guterson Copy Share Image
“she is a girl who cannot walk her troubles off, or work them off; she is a girl to sit around and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
This is why being a helicopter pilot is so different from being an airplane pilot, and why in generality, airplane pilots are… — Harry Reasoner Copy Share Image
Did you really think I was too fragile to know what Deryn was?" "Fragile?" Volger looked about. "I hadn't thought so, but… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
