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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