Bryce Courtenay Best Famous Quotes & Sayings
40 Bryce Courtenay Best Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.— Bryce Courtenay
Then I felt like having a piss and I did that— Bryce Courtenay
The rapacious white tribe who were arriving in increasing numbers, not only as convicts but also as settlers, wanted to own everything they touched. They slashed and burned the wilderness so that they might graze their sheep and grow their corn. They erected fences around the land they now called their own and which henceforth they were prepared to defend with muskets and sometimes even their lives. They built church steeples and prison walls and homes of granite hewn from the virgin rock and timber cut from the umbrageous mountain forests. They possessed everything upon the island, the wild beasts that grazed upon its surface, the birds that flew over it, the fish that swam in its rushing river torrents and the barking seals resting in the quiet bays and secluded inlets. Everything they thought worthwhile was attached to the notion of ownership.— Bryce Courtenay
I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.— Bryce Courtenay
Life is all beginnings and ends. Nothing stays the same, lad.— Bryce Courtenay
The joy of a small town lies in its unchanging nature.— Bryce Courtenay
The Tragedy of the human condition is that the very things that make us interesting and culturally important and progressively brilliant are our differences; and these are also the principle reasons for our prejudices— Bryce Courtenay
First with the head, then with the heart— Bryce Courtenay
Without courage, there is no luck and no hope. He who dares, wins.— Bryce Courtenay
Dare your genius to walk the wildest unknown ways.— Bryce Courtenay
I felt clean, all the bone-beaked loneliness birds banished, their rocky nests turned to river stones. Cool, clear water bubbled over them, streams in the desert.— Bryce Courtenay
Advertising seemed almost natural to me because it was a business where you had to inform, persuade and educate. And so from being a junior copywriter to being the creative director of one of the largest advertising agencies in the country took me 4.5 years, which is, well, a fairly spectacular rise.— Bryce Courtenay
Winning is a state of mind that embraces everything you do.— Bryce Courtenay
Racism does not diminish with brains, it's a disease, a sickness, it may incubate in ignorance but it doesn't necessarily disappear with the gaining of wisdom!— Bryce Courtenay
It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.— Bryce Courtenay
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.— Bryce Courtenay
The mind is the athlete; the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better. Hoppie's dictum to me, "First with the head and then with the heart," was more than simply mixing brains with guts. It meant thinking well beyond the powers of normal concentration and then daring your courage to follow your thoughts.— Bryce Courtenay
If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.— Bryce Courtenay
Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.— Bryce Courtenay
When men can be made to hope, then they can be made to win.— Bryce Courtenay
I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps.— Bryce Courtenay
In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation.— Bryce Courtenay
You can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.— Bryce Courtenay
I Shall Never Surrender.— Bryce Courtenay
I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.— Bryce Courtenay
It's not what a man does, it's what a man is that counts!— Bryce Courtenay
Around a proposition or an idea or story willingly. Some— Bryce Courtenay
People say I don't write books, I make Christmas presents.— Bryce Courtenay
While I told myself that each win was a small deposit on the ultimate ownership of the world welterweight crown, the enormous need in me to win touched a whole heap of other responses a fourteen years old can't really work out. It had something to do with rejecting the Lord, with my mother, the Judge, being surrounded by guys who came from wealthy homes, even my headless snake. While I didn't think of it as camouflage, I now know that it was, that I kept myself protected by being out in front. Too far in front to be an easy mark.— Bryce Courtenay
My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.— Bryce Courtenay
I wish to cup knowledge in my hand and drink it as one drinks water by the side of the stream.— Bryce Courtenay
You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart— Bryce Courtenay
Let me conclude by saying in my experience the glittering prizes in life come more to those who persevere despite setback and disappointment than they do to the exceptionally gifted who, with the confidence of the talents bestowed upon them, often pursue the tasks leading to success with less determination.— Bryce Courtenay
Sometimes, very occasionally, you do your best boxing with your mouth.— Bryce Courtenay
The imagination is always the best torturer.— Bryce Courtenay
Mix the head with the heart, and you're ahead from the start.— Bryce Courtenay
The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself, ofen well beyond any latent ability you may have previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses to run faster or longer, jump higher, shoot straighter, kick better, swim harder, hit further, or box better.— Bryce Courtenay
The time we are given for parenting is so short, passes so quickly and is jumbled up with so many other priorities and disruptions that, in the end, we come to doubt that we used it in the best interests of our children.— Bryce Courtenay
Humans best survive when they are given a purpose; a common enemy to defeat, revenge to wreak or a dream to cling to.— Bryce Courtenay
Mediocrity is the best camouflage known to man.— Bryce Courtenay
