Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
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Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
BROOKS ROBINSON Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
PETE ROSE Fifty years from now, I will not be remembered for how much money I earned, the type of home I lived...
KARON WADDELL Fifty years in the future, I should hope we'll be on our second woman president, at least.
MARY E. PEARSON Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember m...
AHMET ERTEGUN When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible...
ALAN FURST When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
AARON NEVILLE I'll often get obsessed with something for about three days, and I'll be utterly into it, an...
ED GAMBLE I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
PARKER STEVENSON I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows ...
MANIKA Rather than thinking, 'If I do this, and in five years I'll be where I want to be,' you&...
BILLY BOYD I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over an...
VENUS WILLIAMS I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something...
EDDIE MURPHY Sweetheart, I’ll be a Marine ‘til they bury my cold, dead, decrepit ass in the ground a good fif...
DEE TENORIO (Monday's) 1.81 inches was a record for this calendar date. The previous record was for 1.50 inches ...
MIKE BERRY As I see it, there is not much difference between being sixty-three and fifty-three: whereas when I ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me l...
E. L. JAMES What was called extreme 20 years ago definitely isn't extreme anymore. When I started, I remembe...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is ...
OPHELIA LOVIBOND From here it sounds great to say we'll all get together soon, but all I know is this: you can call m...
RICHARD HOOKER I just freestyle. I don't actually write the words on paper. It's just whatever comes into m...
TORY LANEZ I'm not the type who'll yell about my achievements from the rooftops.
AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN I had a few really bad years in school, just from not fitting in and being bullied. It was kind of b...
CARRIE VAUGHN Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY The little Hexagon meditated on this a while and then said to me; "But you have been teaching me to ...
EDWIN A. ABBOTT I would go anywhere to see Brooks Robinson. He was the best third baseman ever. Nobody played third ...
JERRY CARTER I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING I feel great. I feel younger. And I don't feel anything at all. I don't know who knows, but ...
OLGA KORBUT When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out i...
M. WARD When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the...
JANET EVANOVICH I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to th...
MAURICE ASHLEY A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the S...
JACK ABRAMOFF I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a p...
NIK WALLENDA We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets...
NEIL YOUNG I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav...
EDDIE CAMPBELL It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in ...
JOHN MASEFIELD I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and pu...
ELLIOTT SMITH I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for m...
QUIARA ALEGRIA HUDES Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to ...
SEAN PARKER I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser ...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN I'm 38 years old and Limp Bizkit is just something I do. If I was a painter, it would just be a ...
FRED DURST In fairness to Dmitri Young, if you're going out there and asking him to be Brooks Robinson and you ...
JIM LEYLAND Fifty years from now, people will look back upon a Pan American Clipper flight of today as the most ...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books...
R. L. STINE And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
BIBLE I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtim...
FELICIA DAY I'll look back and I'd be better to answer that in about three months from now. Or when the ...
DANNY ELFMAN It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years...
JERRY ZUCKER So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'...
NEWT GINGRICH There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it ...
FEIST And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wis...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN I’ve killed fifty-two people. But really all I want is to get my hands on her. I’d be happy with...
SALLY GREEN I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems b...
JESSYE NORMAN You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno...
A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's...
DAVID SEDARIS I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, &...
KATHI APPELT I listen to a lot of Tibetan music before I sleep. I'll just type in 'Tibetan meditation mus...
MICHELLE PHAN I mean I'll be retired from rap, so what I'll be doin' in rap will be for fun.
TONE LOC I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in...
ROBERT KIRKMAN I could tell them apart, ... But I'm not so sure, if Peyton's still playing three years from now, an...
ARCHIE MANNING I could tell them apart. But I'm not so sure, if Peyton's still playing three years from now, and El...
ARCHIE MANNING When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you mi...
JEFF KINNEY Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everythi...
CHAD SMITH In two years, I'll be making more than Michael Schumacher.
NELSON PIQUET I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.
ARTHUR KORNBERG I can't do Twitter or Facebook, mostly because I feel like I'm the type of person who has to...
BILL HADER As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for mo...
CHRIS PAVONE If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the ...
SIMONE BILES I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ...
BRUCE STERLING When I'm deciding to read a book, I never open to the first chapter, because that's been rev...
CARL HIAASEN I'm the type of person that will do triple sessions in one day. I'll do Pilates, I'll do...
LAURA PREPON I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'l...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody ...
HARRY ANDERSON I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in ...
ELLEN DATLOW I think many years from now, people will still watch television, though it will probably be 150 inch...
LESLIE MOONVES I have hundreds and hundreds of songs waiting to get on albums, but I don't know about the three...
JEWEL Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some...
BILLY GARDELL Three years from now, if the same things are happening, then maybe it would be time to do something....
ANDY KATZ There are a few giant companies that I love, and I love Amazon. Their customer service is impeccable...
ALBERT BROOKS When I meet children at book signings, they'll bring me photos of when I first met them many yea...
GRACE LIN It will be really dramatic. Three years from now, everything in the books will be done. This will re...
BOB SEGAR My fans don't feel like I hold anything back from them. They know whatever I'm going through...
TAYLOR SWIFT I remember the first three times I bought tickets to see Brooks and Dunn and had tickets far away fr...
COWBOY TROY I let my game do the talking. I've had incidents like that but when I compare my own story to the st...
MAURICE ASHLEY I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also be...
J. A. JANCE What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
FREDDIE MERCURY I had a good record company right from the beginning, and I'm still with them after all these ye...
JOHNNY MATHIS I don't like being too serious. I'm the type of person that, if the mike isn't in the ri...
SAVION GLOVER I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
DAVID SEDARIS I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm su...
LARS VON TRIER In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example,...
HANK AZARIA Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu...
CHRIS MATTHEWS I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a boo...
JOHN GRISHAM I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did ...
ALEX CHILTON There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't ...
KAREN ELSON George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to...
BAILEY CHASE I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.
KATIE PRICE Fifty thousand dollars' worth of cabinets isn't going to make you a better cook; cooking is ...
TYLER FLORENCE
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If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
BROOKS ROBINSON He's going to flip over to the Veterans Committee next year, ... It's just too bad things couldn't h...
BROOKS ROBINSON I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.
BROOKS ROBINSON I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and de...
BROOKS ROBINSON I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
BROOKS ROBINSON Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
BROOKS ROBINSON I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.
BROOKS ROBINSON Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseb...
BROOKS ROBINSON I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to t...
BROOKS ROBINSON It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but t...
BROOKS ROBINSON It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract...
BROOKS ROBINSON We are very excited that SEEGRID has chosen this location within the City of Pittsburgh and that the...
BROOKS ROBINSON I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion ...
BROOKS ROBINSON He wrote that he met with Powhatan and was fed cornbread and venison at a big banquet, ... Was he fo...
BROOKS ROBINSON We lost the most beloved Oriole of all time. Not only was Elrod loved here in the Baltimore area, bu...
BROOKS ROBINSON It's much easier sitting down in the chair,
BROOKS ROBINSON I talked to my dad about doing commercials for Flawless. I worked up a couple treatments and present...
BROOKS ROBINSON Was it a fact? ... Or just a great new story about a celebrity that might help sell books?
BROOKS ROBINSON Well, ... it just brought tears to my eyes.
BROOKS ROBINSON many good words to me.
BROOKS ROBINSON Willy was one of those guys who never liked to change gloves. He used to put tongue depressors in th...
BROOKS ROBINSON The Indians were a disciplined, energetic people, ... Their villages were quite well-constructed, co...
BROOKS ROBINSON I really have an affection for York, ... It was the first place where my father came to see me play ...
BROOKS ROBINSON Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts, ... We...
BROOKS ROBINSON I just love coming out here. I love to meet the people here.
BROOKS ROBINSON the priority of my life.
BROOKS ROBINSON I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed an...
BROOKS ROBINSON If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
BROOKS ROBINSON If your not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.
BROOKS ROBINSON I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole...
BROOKS ROBINSON Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
BROOKS ROBINSON Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.
MEL BROOKS Immortality is a by-product of good work.
MEL BROOKS If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
MEL BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one...
HERB BROOKS You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
HERB BROOKS Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i...
ALBERT BROOKS I can take the steel guitars and fiddles off, we can make it a little more pop, cover ideas that are...
GARTH BROOKS Meditate on the unique relationship between Christians. Psalm 133:1 proclaims the goodness and pleas...
THOMAS BROOKS #4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with o...
THOMAS BROOKS It has to be Champ Bailey. His ball skills are outstanding. He can break on the ball. He can re-dire...
AARON BROOKS Unfortunately, it's our new home, temporarily, ... We're going to have to accept that and be as comf...
AARON BROOKS I had my house phone always forwarding to my cell phone, anyway, ... I thought: Eliminate the middle...
AARON BROOKS As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts. We'll band together as a team. We want to go...
AARON BROOKS We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live, ... It's weighing heavily on our hearts an...
AARON BROOKS As a football team, we're not looking for any handouts, ... We know it's going to be difficult, we k...
AARON BROOKS We couldn't believe that this was going on where we live. It's weighing heavily on our hearts and mi...
AARON BROOKS The Civil War is a big game. Regardless of the records going into the game, it's definitely going to...
AARON BROOKS Some of the families weren't able to make it out because a lot of airlines cancelled flights. Famili...
AARON BROOKS Ray Lewis, Ed Reed  you look at what they accomplished last year a...
AARON BROOKS I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epit...
MEHCAD BROOKS I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at m...
RODNEY BROOKS Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city...
GERALDINE BROOKS Even if you didn't see the movie, you'd see two words you'd never seen put together before -- comedy...
ALBERT BROOKS When we spoke, he told me, 'The Newsweek thing has changed the world.' And I said, 'Wasn't it 9/11 t...
ALBERT BROOKS I was allowed to film in the biggest mosque in India and when I told the imam the plot of the movie ...
ALBERT BROOKS Fear is playing a major part in Hollywood production,
ALBERT BROOKS If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.
ALBERT BROOKS I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me.
ALBERT BROOKS I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the purest form of ...
ALBERT BROOKS I come from the place where I am thinking 'I have put my blood on the pages.'
ALBERT BROOKS Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a ma...
ALBERT BROOKS When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed...
ALBERT BROOKS Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
GARTH BROOKS Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently wh...
GARTH BROOKS I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
GARTH BROOKS I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and g...
GARTH BROOKS It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become ...
GARTH BROOKS People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
GARTH BROOKS You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
GARTH BROOKS I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
GARTH BROOKS I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being abl...
GARTH BROOKS Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on o...
GARTH BROOKS Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated.
GARTH BROOKS You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.
GARTH BROOKS Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
GARTH BROOKS Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
GARTH BROOKS You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
GARTH BROOKS True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
GARTH BROOKS I just love to see people having a good time.
GARTH BROOKS Truth is mighty and will prevail.
[Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.]
THOMAS BROOKS He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
THOMAS BROOKS Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck...
CHASE BROOKS It just comes from not doing anything and eating my momma's cooking. After my surgery, I was in the ...
AHMAD BROOKS It means we can play with the big dogs. It's a big confidence boost.
AHMAD BROOKS It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play.
AHMAD BROOKS It was frustrating. It was kind of like last week [against Duke], when I was on the sidelines. You r...
AHMAD BROOKS I had some pressure [on that play]. I threw my hand in his face. That was all I could do. They weren...
AHMAD BROOKS It was my first time playing outside linebacker, this weekend, so it's kind of hard to pick up every...
AHMAD BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some o...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquain...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Chris...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to beli...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: W...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I loo...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Freedom is thrust upon us, and we must take it whether we will or not. Happiest is he who takes it m...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Orthodoxy is, i...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552 What is the Christian? ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If the true rev...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The tests that we have done have not substantiated these claims.
ALLAN BROOKS I try to come every year, to support the fire department. This is a lot better than McDonald's, and ...
ALLAN BROOKS There are scores of inquisitive people visiting the Archbishop's House to simply have a look at this...
ALLAN BROOKS They receive them based on their quality systems, which means that they would have shown strict adhe...
ALLAN BROOKS It is something really bizarre, but one must appreciate the skill of the man who tried this phenomen...
ALLAN BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, well done to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort a...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS At least the box is full of something useful. On his photo gracing a box of Raisin Bran
AVERY BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you've got to fla...
MEL BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I was out in the combat engineers. We would throw up bridges in advance of the infantry but mainly w...
MEL BROOKS Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is h...
MEL BROOKS I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writ...
MEL BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Poetry is life distilled.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
THOMAS BROOKS I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.
BROOKS ATKINSON If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
GARTH BROOKS The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but t...
BROOKS ATKINSON I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.
BROOKS ATKINSON A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
PHILLIPS BROOKS A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broad...
PHILLIPS BROOKS As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.
MEL BROOKS No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the peopl...
PHILLIPS BROOKS No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and wit...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let
MEL BROOKS No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I just wake up and say, You're a bum, go do something worthwhile today.
GARTH BROOKS Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
PHILLIPS BROOKS It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vit...
BROOKS ATKINSON You know a dream is like a river, ever changing as it flows.
And a dreamer's just a vessel that m...
GARTH BROOKS Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and ...
BROOKS ATKINSON Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and pr...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.
GARTH BROOKS The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all respons...
BROOKS ATKINSON Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your a...
MEL BROOKS Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
PHILLIPS BROOKS We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be ...
PAUL BROOKS Each body has its art...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun.
GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS