What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i...
ALBERT 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 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 I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT 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 guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a...
ALBERT BROOKS I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the ...
ALBERT BROOKS I'm a member of the Academy, but I don't know who all the other Academy members are. It'...
ALBERT BROOKS If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stori...
ALBERT BROOKS I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken...
ALBERT BROOKS I'm really fond of 'Real Life' because I think it anticipated a whole movement. And peop...
ALBERT BROOKS I don't see many explosions or ten-car crashes in the course of my life, so I don't put them...
ALBERT BROOKS When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but...
ALBERT BROOKS One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been b...
ALBERT BROOKS I'm not a big fan of the post-Armageddon stories, where Denzel Washington is walking around in a...
ALBERT BROOKS I had done about 60 television shows, from 'Ed Sullivan' to 'The Hollywood Palace,' ...
ALBERT BROOKS You know what it is, the reason so many 18-year-olds, 19-year-olds are saying 'Drive' is the...
ALBERT BROOKS I started on television. I had five years of network television before I ever got up on a stage. The...
ALBERT BROOKS I attempt to create a form of seriocomic entertainment to either delight, enlighten, or disgust, whi...
ALBERT BROOKS This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and difference...
ALBERT BROOKS I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll...
ALBERT BROOKS I made my living in comedy, but I'm not a silly person. I've got all these sides to me. Even...
ALBERT BROOKS It's funny: in the middle of making 'The Muse,' I was offered, at the time, the first &#...
ALBERT BROOKS My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.&#...
ALBERT BROOKS There are a few giant companies that I love, and I love Amazon. Their customer service is impeccable...
ALBERT BROOKS You know what I've always wanted to do? I've always wanted to put a lung in a suitcase and s...
ALBERT BROOKS My dad died right after performing at the Friars' roast for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. I have ...
ALBERT BROOKS My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of th...
ALBERT BROOKS Bullfights are hugely popular because you can sit comfortably with a hot dog and possibly watch a ma...
ALBERT BROOKS There've been a few mother-daughter movies that are somewhat realistic. But the mother-son movie...
ALBERT BROOKS I'd still like to see 'Survivor' minus the planned show-biz parts. That would be the pur...
ALBERT BROOKS Listen, there are some movies that are set in stone and the writer or the director does not want to ...
ALBERT BROOKS You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in ...
ALBERT BROOKS I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I ...
ALBERT BROOKS When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I...
ALBERT BROOKS I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking...
ALBERT BROOKS As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own m...
ALBERT BROOKS I was offered 'Pretty Woman.' I was offered 'Big' and 'Dead Poets Society.' ...
ALBERT BROOKS Wouldn't it be great if cars came equipped with screens like that thing they have in Times Squar...
ALBERT BROOKS 'Finding Nemo' has spawned so many sort of emotions over the years. I don't even know th...
ALBERT BROOKS I never, in anything I've ever done, tried to get you to like it. I was never going to succeed a...
ALBERT BROOKS Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
ALBERT BROOKS I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
ALBERT BROOKS If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I n...
ALBERT BROOKS I take anything other than 'you big pig!' as a compliment.
ALBERT BROOKS I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
ALBERT BROOKS I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, &#...
ALBERT BROOKS The idea behind 'Defending Your Life': Imagine if you had to sit in a courtroom and watch yo...
ALBERT BROOKS Twitter is the Devil's playground.
ALBERT BROOKS If you don't succeed on your own ground, then there's no reason to succeed. Unless, of cours...
ALBERT BROOKS When I was younger, I wasn't concentrating on good days. I was managing a career and trying to h...
ALBERT BROOKS I don't think the goal is, 'How big a star did you ever become?' I think the goal is, &#...
ALBERT BROOKS You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too grea...
ALBERT BROOKS 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 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 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 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 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