Brassy Quotes

The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old. (Ted Hughes)
Im usually cast as the sassy, brassy best friend. View quote
Annie Parisse
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way. View quote
Peter York
They all had the same ideas and expressed them always with the same ponderous and brassy assurance. If it was not Babbitt who was delivering any given verdict, at least he was beaming on the chancellor who did deliver it. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted. View quote
Brian Mulroney
I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. View quote
Ethel Merman
Jack is the showman-the brassy frontman and the snake-oil trader. View quote
Jack White
The prairies were dust. Day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. Crop after crop failed. Again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. The agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. Then the bank failed. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane