#brand

Imagination without vision, is like a brand with no passion ↗

— Jaco Snoek

#imagination

Please," Kendra said. "Think of all the lives that will be destroyed." "I have," Mark said. "Believe me, darling, I grasp all aspects of this, I really do. But how much has the public I'm protecting worried about me? My sanity, my happiness, my right to find peace?" "They made no promises," Bracken said. "They are not preventing the end of the world. Those who know about your sacrifice appreciate you immeasurably. Your life may not be fair, but it is absolutely necessary. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#demon #fablehaven #fair #keys #life

Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars... ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#james-patterson #jk-rowling #love #new-moon #sex

You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars… ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#love #poetry #shakespeare #women #love

90 percent of all Gillette shavers are bought by women for the men in their lives ↗

— Martin Lindstrom

#marketing #retail #retailing #men

That wouldn't be a first, now would it?" "Jean." "Jean Grey is dead, Agent." "Yeah, that'll last. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#astonishing-x-men #emma-frost #joss-whedon #men

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#hell #music #music

You don't know how to respond," Ferrin said. "I'll make it easy for you. The safest course of action for your young rebellion would be to toss me off the tallest cliff you can find. I have played a perilous game for years--trading secrets, telling lies, finding leverage, earning trust only to betray it. I got away with an eccentric lifestyle among Maldor's elite by hiding much of what I learned and proving myself too valuable to kill. It was a precarious, unforgiving game. When I released you from Felrook, I miscalculated, and I lost Game over. Bridges burned. But the game is part of my nature. I don't think I can stop playing until I stop breathing. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#brandon #mull #rebellion #seeds #nature

Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#elantris #pessimism #respect

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage. ↗

— Russell Brand

#self-destruction #talent #destruction