The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal – every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open – this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
I want a brood, you know. I’d like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.
I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black ‘at’ people. I didn’t just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.
In order to write novels for a living – it’s not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I’m working on.
In order to write novels for a living – it’s not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I’m working on.
There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don’t brood over my broody image.
I have already done two Christmas films: ‘Elf’ and ‘Four Christmases.’ I guess I really am a sucker for Christmas. Both movies are really about the importance of family. I come from a brood of five kids, and it’s the one time of year we can all get together. It’s hands-down my favorite holiday.
I have already done two Christmas films: ‘Elf’ and ‘Four Christmases.’ I guess I really am a sucker for Christmas. Both movies are really about the importance of family. I come from a brood of five kids, and it’s the one time of year we can all get together. It’s hands-down my favorite holiday.
In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.
The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
Brad has changed my sister a lot. They have an extraordinary bond, it’s not on the usual level. He’s great with her and I’ve never seen a brood like that who are all so supportive of one another.
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
I think it’s very dangerous for people who do anything that’s public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you’re bound to find things that will delight you – but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?
Some divorcees turn their pain inward. They brood, and they grieve for a long time, always wondering if they could have done something differently to keep this from happening. They make every problem in their relationship into something they could have prevented.
When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.
The thing I think about all the time is, what if I’d taken a job at Deloitte instead? They offered me one. I just think if I’d taken literally any other job, Cambridge Analytica wouldn’t exist. You have no idea how much I brood on this.
With The Brood, it was cool because it had the music, it had the different look and at the time reality-based characters were really starting to take the forefront as opposed to the cartoon character stuff that you’d seen in the past. We were already into the Attitude era. It was kind of a gimmick, but it was a cool gimmick. It wasn’t corny.
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
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