Avery Bradley Quotes

Life is all in the setup. A lot of people think I got the world handed to me, and I let them think exactly that whilst they handed me the world.

So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?

It was funny to hear her voice aloud. Her thoughts and perceptions usually existed so deep inside her, they rarely made it to the surface without a deliberate effort.

I'm not sure whether it is me changing my mind, or whether I lie a lot.

There are a lot of memories we imagine. We play them over and over in our minds, trying to orchestrate our movements and words to perfection. Or maybe it's just that I've lived inside of my head more than any other person in the history of the world. Maybe none of us can really predict how we will act at any give moment. Maybe we're all at the mercy of circumstance in spite of our well-laid plans.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

I hadn't a clue who I was racing against. All I knew was how I was going to race.

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

I always keep my head down, working, doing things, moving forward. That's what I've done all my life. Then you stop and realize what you've done.

Although human beings are incapable of talking about themselves with total honesty, it is much harder to avoid the truth while pretending to be other people. They often reveal much about themselves in a very straightforward way. I am certain that I did. There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

No doubt about it: error is the rule, truth is the accident of error.

I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean.

I tell myself that I know you, and then when I think about it, I realize that I don't.

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

With no object no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are looking at you looking.

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin