16 Quotes by Henry Bromell

Sometimes when you look back on a situation, you realize it wasn’t all you thought it was. A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love. Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It’s a messy business, life. It’s hard to figure – full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I’d share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don’t take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it’s knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

I went to school with a guy named Truxton. He and I played football together, and he knocked me out once because he’s bigger and strong than I am.

It’s important to begin a search on a full stomach.

It’s hard enough to tell good stories about people who analyze information for a living. It’s even harder to do a good show about people who think for a living.