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Pocahontas was the reason the Virginia colony didn't disappear, unlike some earlier attempts.
BROOKS ROBINSON [John Robinson also told him the baby's name was Tiffany, he said.] We named her Heather Tiffany Rob...
DON ROBINSON Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
PETE ROSE I would go anywhere to see Brooks Robinson. He was the best third baseman ever. Nobody played third ...
JERRY CARTER Virginia looked quite good, but we will beat [them] next time around ? it was early and the game got...
BEN GLIKLICH I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
JIM VALVANO In fairness to Dmitri Young, if you're going out there and asking him to be Brooks Robinson and you ...
JIM LEYLAND Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprisi...
REZA ASLAN The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
DAN GILROY It was a big night for us with the turnovers. They key was to stop Deuce McAllister [47 yards] earli...
ANTONIO PIERCE We believed that [in earlier attempts to pass such a proposal] we got bogged down by having those sp...
RAY FREEMAN I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for ...
MICHEL FABER I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of ...
DONALD G. MITCHELL Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United St...
FIDEL CASTRO Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these we...
Q'ORIANKA KILCHER Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the ...
JOYCE RACHELLE Pocahontas' wedding was definitely a well-thought political move on her part, something she did for ...
CAMILLA TOWNSEND Jamestown with her wild train she as freely frequented, as her fathers habitation; and during the ti...
JOHN SMITH We lost track of her for some reason in the second half. We got mixed up on our assignments with her...
JEFF TANK I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
VIRGINIA WOOLF Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that...
SUSIE BRIGHT Nobody of importance has spoken to me yet. It's not Virginia. She was nice and respectful. Her staff...
PATRICIA JOHNSON We can do subtle," I assured her.
"It's our middle name," Andrea added.
For some odd reaso...
ILONA ANDREWS I listen to the people. That was a big reason for my life, maybe the main reason, I'm singing be...
JULIO IGLESIAS The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER confident that Toshiba's remaining efforts to challenge the verdict, including its inevitable appeal...
ERIC WHITAKER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an accept...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE Everything happens for a reason. I thank the Lord my family is safe; just really thank the Lord.
JOSH KING We thank Theresa for her contributions and wish her well in her future endeavors.
BARRY FELD There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck.
HUBERT SELBY JR. She was phenomenal. We had to get her out of her rhythm. We should have changed our defense earlier.
TERRY ANTHONY Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some ...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG Earlier attempts to identify vaccine candidates resulted in only two molecules in a decade.
EVANS TARACHA You said that we would stay forever, the only problem was that you later walked away from me and did...
SANDIBEL DIAZ During inspiration, you lose some quotes and they are gone for life. :) You didnt let it LIVE :(..
DAR ADLEY Thank Life For Happening, Thank Every Twist And Turn, There Is A Reason For Every Single Thing, Ther...
DANTE JANNICELLI "Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the
gentleman, laughing. I looked u...
CHARLES DICKENS She's just super responsible. So we knew something was wrong ... this is totally unlike her.
ANDI BLACK For a while, that can is going to take the cake. This was one of the more elaborate attempts -- it r...
BRIAN LEVIN For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her.
ADEWALE ADEYOOYE I don't know if you can totally stop her. We contained her. We frustrated her tonight and we threw s...
DAVE KLINGEL Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
NELSON MANDELA Brooks was one of the greatest competitors we ever played against.
LARRY HAYS It was an F 1 when it hit south of Pocahontas.
DOUGLAS VOGELSANG I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my scho...
IMTIAZ ALI We didn't want the shin splints flaring up against West Virginia. So we kept her out.
BEN BUCCA I think they've proved they can be balanced, but Hanni and Robinson have been the guys for them most...
LEO KLEMM One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who playe...
JOSH CHARLES She was taking her picture, her senior pictures at the animal sanctuary and the tiger, for whatever ...
DENNIS WILSON We are happy because we think this is a group that the federation can work with, unlike some of the ...
LARRY WILSON He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. Th...
LEIGH BARDUGO 'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw...
JEFF LEMIRE Always find a reason to thank someone… And be a reason for someone’s THANKS.
HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS The earlier you ask, the earlier you can enlist them for their help.
KATHLEEN MURRAY After such prolonged frowning, it took her some moments to recall what her normal face even looked l...
HARUKI MURAKAMI These Web sites allege that the woman in the video is Miss West Virginia, but it's not. Some sites e...
LAVINIA MANN CUMMINGS Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and ...
ROSALYNN CARTER There are some movies you do for the character; there are some movies you do for the people.
KAJAL AGGARWAL The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY I thought the 3s [we made] loosened them up. We've got some guys who can shoot them, but for some re...
JOE GUERRERO Erika told me earlier that she was going to play big. She said 'Coach, I'm going to play big for her...
LYMAN FOSTER There is reason to believe that her death was a setback for his health. It was probably the last str...
HANS KNOETZE Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once. Some reappear. Every woman who appears w...
REBECCA SOLNIT We don't want that colony to get any bigger.
DAVE SHERMAN To suggest, however, that Pocahontas worshipped the white man, abandoned her people, or loved John S...
CAMILLA TOWNSEND I thank god for the 19 years he gave her to me, but why her life was taken from me, I just don't und...
CYNTHIA LEE We can't thank Carole enough and her support is just great for us.
DAVE WILKINS That was unfortunate for Zach. He was a guy that had some issues earlier and was starting to come ba...
BRIAN FUENTES The sea of reporters on her lawn made Loretta Brooks do a double take.
MISSY LYONS The rate of foraging slowed down and stopped completely, placing stress on the colony because materi...
SEAN O'DONNELL If it was Virginia Tech, man, we would be so hyped for that game we would sure enough be ready.
JASON MURPHY if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...
ZENO OF CITIUM I would think we have to ask the individual at the health department the reason for not disclosing i...
GREG EDWARDS We did some things on offense, execution-wise, that we hadn't been doing earlier. Our defense played...
GLEN PADGETT I would like to congratulate Liz Robinson on her achievement,
JACQUI SMITH Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN Neighbors were saying that dog was very protective of the woman. For some reason, it snapped.
JAMES TATE The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th...
DALEEN IRSHAID See, unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident. And if your parents have you ...
JODI PICOULT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Schools were starting earlier and earlier. I talked with parents, teachers and principals from all o...
LARRY MCKEOWN The mental struggle started earlier this year when Katie broke her foot in the summer and we missed ...
GARRETT LUCASH It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
W. C. FIELDS I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespe...
JOHN KEATS Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a...
FRANK ROBINSON The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN To open up Chantel in the post, we had to hit some long shots, and for the most part that didn't hap...
ERIC VOLBERT If these doors are open for any reason, then you've had it. ... All you need is bashing by the sea a...
RICHARD CLAYTON As indicated earlier, we were disappointed in our 2005 financial results. Despite certain areas of o...
JACK WARD You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you. But if you wal...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY She was just mowing us down. Rick (Breed, assistant coach) was threatening to bunt earlier. In the f...
CURT SMITH For whatever reason we did get complacent. For a game we had total control, we were winning, great t...
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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 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 Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
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