Quotes and Sayings about Brooks
"Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics, Practice, Profession)
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
- Brooks Adams
(Related: Difference, Influence)
"Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Heart, Divinity, Effort, Lies, Man, Woman)
"Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: God, Goodness)
"Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Science, Power, Day, Existence, Mankind, May, Race, Suicide, World)
"Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Politics)
"One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three hardly possible."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Friend)
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Eternity, Influence)
"A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Belief, Man, Now)
"I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Art, Politics, Literature)
"I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics."
- Henry Brooks Adams
(Related: Truth, Doctrine, Physics, Trinity)
"People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: People, Responsibility, Thinking)
"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Men, Poetry, Education, Knowledge, College, Thinking, Years)
"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Life, Growth, Illusion)
"In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Age, Time, Thought, People, Myth, Old)
"Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy."
- Brooks Atkinson
"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: God, Past)
"Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Day, First, Labor)
"After each war there is a little less democracy to save."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: War, Democracy)
"There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Joy, Play)
"It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth."
- Brooks Atkinson
(Related: Life, Truth)
"If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Money)
"It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than by 60 million for something you're not."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: People)
"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Film, Want)
"Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a man die. It won't be me, but I can sit comfortably and watch it."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Man, Popular)
"Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before - comedy and Muslim. Comedy is friendly - it's the least offensive word in our language."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Muslim, Comedy, Language, Word, Words)
"I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'"
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Blood, Thinking)
"I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Visit, Weekend)
"I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of show business - I want to see someone so hungry that they eat somebody else's foot."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: Business, Want)
"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."
- Albert Brooks
(Related: First, Word)
"The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Soul, America, Battle, Nothing)
"Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Envy, Pride, World)
"Whether we look at capitalism, taxes, business, or government, the data show a clear and consistent pattern: 70 percent of Americans support the free enterprise system and are unsupportive of big government."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Government, Business, Americans, Capitalism, Support, Taxes)
"We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Equality, Success, Corporations, Income, Labor, State, Taxes, Will)
"There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Government, Money, Nothing)
"The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Happiness, Life, Truth, Belief, Income, Value)
"The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Success, Life, Control, Failure)
"In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Values, American, Culture, Economy, Expression, Fight)
"If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Money, Force)
"Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Life, Wealth, Creation, Formula, Satisfaction)
"FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Gain, Job, Majority, Nothing, Today)
"As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Government, Party, Vote)
"The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives."
- Arthur C. Brooks
(Related: Money, Success, People, Ability, Contrast)
"Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster."
- Avery Brooks
(Related: Wisdom, Life, Knowledge, Control, Children, Disaster, Smile)
"Until the world in some way changes, then my responsibility is to share what I know and more importantly to behave like I know about the extraordinary work and effort and blood shed for me to be able to sit here."
- Avery Brooks
(Related: Work, Blood, Effort, Responsibility, World)
"What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history."
- Avery Brooks
(Related: History, Being, Feeling, Thinking)
"When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas."
- David Brooks
(Related: Politics, Ideas, Character, Talk)
"Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone."
- David Brooks
(Related: People, Character, Building)
"People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness."
- David Brooks
(Related: People, Selling, Cleanliness, President, Value)
"People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time."
- David Brooks
(Related: Time, People, Reality, Right, Want)
"The rich don't exploit the poor. They just out-compete them."
- David Brooks
(Related: Poor)
"This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate."
- David Brooks
(Related: Death, Causes, Hate, Horror, Negotiation, Reason, Want)
"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy."
- David Brooks
"What family you were born into matters so much more than it did before in a perverse way."
- David Brooks
(Related: Family)
"America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams."
- David Brooks
(Related: Dreams, Politics, America, Aspirations, Culture, Democracy, Personality)
"Fellow made me a $10 bet I couldn't quit, and I haven't had a drink since. At the time I needed the $10."
- Foster Brooks
(Related: Time)
"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."
- Fred Brooks
(Related: Experience, Judgment)
"How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time."
- Fred Brooks
(Related: Time, Day, Project)
"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: God, Gifts)
"I'm much too young to feel this damn old."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Old)
"I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: May, Practice)
"Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Faith)
"If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: God, Mom, Talent)
"I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Action, Film, Relax, Sleep)
"It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!"
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Funny, People)
"People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: People)
"It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Fun)
"That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Football, Night, Practice, School)
"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: People)
"The guys have told me not to quit my day job."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Day, Job)
"True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Life, Music, Honesty, Country, Country music, Sincerity)
"Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Quality, Hope, Class)
"While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Music, Time, Baseball, Songs, Thinking, Writing)
"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Money)
"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Fire)
"No matter what you say you might do, you never really know until you're in the moment. Every situation is so different."
- Garth Brooks
"I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Want)
"I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!"
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Honesty, Mind, Will)
"I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore onscreen."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Love, People, Being, Play)
"Just keep taking chances and having fun."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Fun)
"I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Home, Music, Acting, Mind)
"I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Sports, Time, Fans, Favorite, Musicians, Relaxation, Talk)
"I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Business, Love, Want)
"I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Christmas, Fun, Will)
"I believe in the Wal-Mart school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Business, People, School)
"Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Change)
"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Music, Baseball, Being, Play)
"Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Time)
"Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!"
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Being, Boys, Day, Giving, Job, Trying)
"Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: God)
"Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!"
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Listening)
"I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future."
- Garth Brooks
(Related: Baseball, Future)
"A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Education, School, Writer, Writers)
"We are each other's magnitude and bond."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
"Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Life, Language, Wonders, Words)
"Poetry is life distilled."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Life, Poetry)
"Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?"
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Day, World)
"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Thought)
"I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Challenge, Writing)
"I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Writer)
"First fight. Then fiddle."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Fight, First)
"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Gold, Will)
"Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Art, Home)
"What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Work, Expression, Fighting, Now, Poems, Project)
"When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Love, Body, Man, Right, Sky, Water, World)
"When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: People, Minority)
"Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else."
- Gwendolyn Brooks
(Related: Minority)
"You're playing worse and worse every day and right now you're playing like it's next month."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Day, Now, Right)
"You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Country, Name, Play)
"You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Dreams)
"We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Dreams, Kids, Nation, Now)
"And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Now)
"If I'd have went on the ice when this thing happened, someone would have speared me or something. It's a great feeling of accomplishment and pride. They had to do it; it was their moment."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Accomplishment, Feeling, Pride)
"I'm a dreamer."
- Herb Brooks
"Great moments are born from great oppurtunities."
- Herb Brooks
(Related: Moments)
"This is your moment. You're meant to be here."
- Herb Brooks
"Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me."
- Herb Brooks
"Everything goes in cycles, to a degree."
- Herb Brooks
"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Actor)
"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Sense, World)
"Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene."
- James L. Brooks
"Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so."
- James L. Brooks
"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Work, Living, Media, Privacy)
"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Appreciation, Kids)
"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: News, Open)
"I value comedy. I value somebody who can be funny."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Funny, Comedy, Value)
"I took some time out for life."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Life, Time)
"I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real."
- James L. Brooks
"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Love, Idea, Comedy, Romantic)
"A lot of things just aren't true any more."
- James L. Brooks
"I have a lot of nightmares."
- James L. Brooks
"I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Idea, Decency, Marketing)
"Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie."
- James L. Brooks
"I'm big on research."
- James L. Brooks
(Related: Research)
"The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Art, Soul, Thought, Body, Isolation)
"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Actor, Living, Present)
"There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Career, Film, Occupation, World)
"Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: People, Dumb, Girls)
"In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Dreams, Dance)
"I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: Wishing)
"I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife."
- Louise Brooks
(Related: People, Will)
"We want to get people laughing; we don't want to offend anybody."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: People, Want)
"We rest our case on the production numbers."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Numbers, Production, Rest)
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Comedy, Open, Tragedy)
"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Talent, People, Ability, Being, Living, Names, Skin, Writer)
"These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Men, Living, Trying)
"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: People, Chance, Comedy, Rhetoric)
"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Life, Death, Want, Will)
"Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Life, Comedy)
"If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Living, Quiet)
"You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself."
- Mel Brooks
"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Country, Wives)
"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: God)
"I only direct in self-defense."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Self)
"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Business, Being)
"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Humor, Defense, Universe)
"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Life, Love, Fear)
"Bad taste is simply saying the truth before it should be said."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Truth, Saying, Taste)
"As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Mistakes, World)
"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Writers)
"He who hesitates is poor."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Poor)
"If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none."
- Mel Brooks
(Related: Death, Chance)
"I obsess too much."
- Meredith Brooks
"My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me."
- Meredith Brooks
(Related: Artist, Parents)
"I believe you can remember the future as much as the past."
- Meredith Brooks
(Related: Future, Past)
"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Prayer)
"As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life)
"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, Understanding)
"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, God, Earth, Paradise, Man)
"Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Faults)
"Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Change, Opinions, Will)
"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Character, May, Moments)
"Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Faults, Forget)
"Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Home, Charity)
"A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Power, Man, Right, Silence, Words)
"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, Work, Literature, World)
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!"
- Phillips Brooks
"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Music, Christianity)
"No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, God, People, Greatness, Mankind)
"No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Being, Existence, Goodness, Man, Woman, World)
"Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: God, End, Will)
"Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Christ, Divinity, Humanity)
"It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, Dawn, Meaning)
"It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Men)
"I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back."
- Phillips Brooks
"Happiness is the natural flower of duty."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Happiness, Duty)
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Power)
"No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, God, Greatness, Man, Mankind, Race)
"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Soul, Thoughts, Day, Deeds, Desire, Man, Thinking, Will)
"Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it."
- Phillips Brooks
"The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Feet, May)
"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Life, Blood, Will)
"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Nature, Greatness, Will)
"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Burden, Energy, Help, Man, May)
"To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Work, Knowledge, Effort)
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung."
- Phillips Brooks
(Related: Music, Soul, Heart, Angels, Burden, Care, Christmas, Earth, Old, Song)
"Whatever insults my State insults me."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: Insults, State)
"If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: Power)
"I should have forfeited my own self-respect, and perhaps the good opinion of my countrymen, if I had failed to resent such an injury by calling the offender in question to a personal account."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: Injury, Opinion, Question, Self)
"But, sir, they have written me down upon the history of the country as worthy of expulsion, and in no unkindness I must tell them that for all future time my self-respect requires that I shall pass them as strangers."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: History, Time, Country, Future, Self, Strangers, Unkindness)
"But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: Privilege, Senate)
"They had no right, as it seems to me, to prosecute me in these Halls; nor have you the right in law or under the Constitution, as I respectfully submit, to take jurisdiction over offenses committed against them."
- Preston Brooks
(Related: Constitution, Law, Right)
"The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel."
- Scott Brooks
(Related: Coach, Games)
"Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me write about places more distant than Florida, but I can tell you things about Florida and alligators, let you make the connection all on your own."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Connection, Fantasy, Writing)
"What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Want)
"I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Experience, Want, World)
"In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Action, Weather)
"My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, to name a few."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Adventure, Name, Writers)
"My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Now, Years)
"On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: People, Mind, Stress)
"Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Self, Testing)
"We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: People, Being, Circumstances, Problems, Trying)
"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Country, Importance)
"I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Want)
"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Books)
"When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Entertainment)
"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Forget)
"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Imagination, Entertainment, Growing up)
"I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Change, Writer)
"After all, you put a lot into creating a universe and everything that goes with it, and it seems a shame to use it only once."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Shame, Universe)
"A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Magic, World)
"Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Work, Books, Fiction, First, Trade)
"Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Thinking)
"For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Time, World, Writer)
"Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Travel, Anger, Bitterness, Hurt, Road)
"I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Magic, Want)
"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Books, Mind)
"I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Language)
"I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Winter)
"Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on."
- Terry Brooks
(Related: Fantasy)
"Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: Faith, Heaven, Will, Yield)
"Truth is mighty and will prevail."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: Truth, Will)
"The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter."
- Thomas Brooks
"He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: May)
"God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: God, Heart, Dumb, Will)
"For great is truth, and shall prevail."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: Truth)
"A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: God, Actions, End, Glory, Man, Will)
"Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house."
- Thomas Brooks
(Related: Father)
"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Nothing)
"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Knowledge, Authority, Ignorance, Religious, World)
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Bible, American, Books, English, Mind, Newspapers)
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: War, Impulses, Man)
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: People, Superiority, Knowledge, Breeding)
"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: People, Jealousy, Vanity)
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Geese, Swans)
"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Men, Evil, Giving, Job, World)
"Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Genius, Virtue)
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Successful, Courage, Man)
"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."
- Van Wyck Brooks
(Related: Years)
"Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced."
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
(Related: Identity)
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
(Related: Project, Software)
"How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time."
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
(Related: Time, Day, Project)
"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
(Related: Technology, Development, Management, Improvement, Order, Productivity, Promises, Simplicity)
"The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another."
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
(Related: Chance)
"And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie."
- Claudia Cardinale
(Related: Opportunity, Brooks, professionals)
"One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer."
- Josh Charles
(Related: Time, Actor, Athletes, Being, Brooks, Respect)
"Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway."
- Dom DeLuise
(Related: Success, Brooks, Friends, Heaven)
"I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: Brooks, Comedy, Footsteps, May)
"I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny."
- Illeana Douglas
(Related: Funny, Love, Goal, Brooks, Comedy, Day, Fantasy, Night, Thinking)
"Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas."
- John Dryden
(Related: Brooks, Habits, Rivers)
"I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century."
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
(Related: Brooks, Reading)
"Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory."
- Brooks Hays
(Related: Oratory)
"I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now."
- John Hughes
(Related: Change, People, Brooks, Brothers, Clothes, Now)
"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Brooks, Brothers, Clothes)
"Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work."
- Tea Leoni
(Related: Work, Brooks)
"Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made."
- Barry Levinson
(Related: Movies, Work, Brooks, Comedy, School, Silly)
"I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety."
- Barry Levinson
(Related: Work, Anxiety, Brooks, Chance)
"I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks."
- Donald G. Mitchell
(Related: Life, Brooks, Day, Hearing, Heaven, Shadow, Summer)
"And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours."
- Mike Myers
(Related: Dad, Love, Movies, Brooks)
"I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Life, Baseball, Games, Man, Play)
"If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Job)
"Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Faith, People, Baseball, Want, Will)
"Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Reason)
"It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Time, Moments, Pretty, Word)
"If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Job)
"I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Baseball, Name, Obsession, Passion)
"Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book."
- Brooks Robinson
(Related: Now, Years)
"I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those."
- Brooks Robinson
"Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league."
- Pete Rose
(Related: Brooks)
"I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors."
- Carl Sandburg
(Related: Brooks, Editors, Letters, Poems, Rejection, Right, Years)
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
- William Shakespeare
(Related: Life, Books, Brooks, Public, Running, Sermons, Trees)
"They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks."
- Andy Van Slyke
(Related: Brooks, Play)
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence."
- Brooks Stevens
(Related: Economy)
"I believe in status symbols."
- Brooks Stevens
"Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now."
- Brooks Stevens
(Related: Economy, Now)
"My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks."
- Robin Tunney
(Related: Brooks, Friends)
"We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch."
- Shawn Wayans
(Related: People, Brooks)
"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."
- Douglas Wood
(Related: Life, Love, Work, Brooks, Film, First)