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Top 20 Frank Bruni Quotes (2025 Update)

Frank Bruni Quote: “Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I’m convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.”

1. “Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I’m convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they’re either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”

2. “I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they’re either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?”

3. “Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “People who flourish make a decision to flourish. They point themselves toward joy.”

4. “People who flourish make a decision to flourish. They point themselves toward joy.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.”

5. “College is a singular opportunity to rummage through and luxuriate in ideas, to give your brain a vigorous workout and your soul a thorough investigation, to realize how very large the world is and to contemplate your desired place in it.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that’s dangerous, because you’re going to slip and fall in your life.”

6. “My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that’s dangerous, because you’re going to slip and fall in your life.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.”

7. “In some perfect world where human nature is less messy and history less fraught, any and all people who had ever suffered discrimination would find common cause, gathering together under one big anti-bigotry banner.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it’s not just a magnet for the curious. It’s a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant expert. You have a degree? Well, I did a Google search!”

8. “Although the Internet could be making all of us smarter, it makes many of us stupider, because it’s not just a magnet for the curious. It’s a sinkhole for the gullible. It renders everyone an instant expert. You have a degree? Well, I did a Google search!”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn’t cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn’t clash.”

9. “After all, a creature without passionate conviction doesn’t cling to extremes. He surveys the scenery and makes sure his outfit doesn’t clash.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.”

10. “Rejection was arbitrary. Rejection was survivable.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful.”

11. “With a more expansive stretch, there’s a better chance that I’ll be around at the precise, random moment when one of my nephews drops his guard and solicits my advice about something private. Or when one of my nieces will need someone other than her parents to tell her that she’s smart and beautiful.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!”

12. “Are you telling me that the polite little note I sent my college alumni magazine has, by some unbeknownst series of errors, come to be printed in The Paper of Record, instead? What a fiasco!”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.”

13. “Campaigns waged with lies presage governments racked by distrust. The sclerosis starts there.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “There was nothing like a martini to blunt the day and polish the night.”

14. “There was nothing like a martini to blunt the day and polish the night.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Imagine that our hardships, our hurdles, our demons, our pain were spelled out for everyone around us to see. Imagine that each of us donned a sandwich board that itemized them.”

15. “Imagine that our hardships, our hurdles, our demons, our pain were spelled out for everyone around us to see. Imagine that each of us donned a sandwich board that itemized them.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Why me?” There’s a better question, of course: “Why not me?” Why should any of us be spared struggle, when struggle is a condition more universal than comfort, than satiation, than peace, maybe than love? Should we even be calling or thinking of it as struggle, which connotes an exertion beyond the usual, a deviation from the norm?”

16. “Why me?” There’s a better question, of course: “Why not me?” Why should any of us be spared struggle, when struggle is a condition more universal than comfort, than satiation, than peace, maybe than love? Should we even be calling or thinking of it as struggle, which connotes an exertion beyond the usual, a deviation from the norm?”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “As our physical muscles grow weaker, our emotional muscles grow stronger, and we’re better at seeing the comedy in the tragedy, the advance in the setback, the good in the bad.”

17. “As our physical muscles grow weaker, our emotional muscles grow stronger, and we’re better at seeing the comedy in the tragedy, the advance in the setback, the good in the bad.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “If you maintain a robust agenda of activities, if you nurture a rich network of relationships, if you intellectually challenge yourself, if you pay attention to your diet, if you exercise regularly and vigorously, if you latch on to a sense of purpose.”

18. “If you maintain a robust agenda of activities, if you nurture a rich network of relationships, if you intellectually challenge yourself, if you pay attention to your diet, if you exercise regularly and vigorously, if you latch on to a sense of purpose.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “It required attention, openness, humility. It required the recognition that something small could be enough, that something ordinary could be extraordinary.”

19. “It required attention, openness, humility. It required the recognition that something small could be enough, that something ordinary could be extraordinary.”

— Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni Quote: “Defiance or resignation? It seemed to me that both were in order, but the proportions of each had to be right. The mix – the recipe – had to make sense. The same went for hope and dread. I could wade into but not wallow in either.”

20. “Defiance or resignation? It seemed to me that both were in order, but the proportions of each had to be right. The mix – the recipe – had to make sense. The same went for hope and dread. I could wade into but not wallow in either.”

— Frank Bruni

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