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Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.
PETE ROSE Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight.
MICHAEL RITCHIE The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.
BEN FOUNTAIN I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN In fairness to Dmitri Young, if you're going out there and asking him to be Brooks Robinson and you ...
JIM LEYLAND Who is sitting in that empty chair?
EUGENE ORMANDY I would go anywhere to see Brooks Robinson. He was the best third baseman ever. Nobody played third ...
JERRY CARTER There were dozens of stones of all sizes in the small meadow. Tall stones, bigger than either of the...
NEIL GAIMAN I can see him sitting in that chair. And he's smiling at me.
GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR Brooks is going to be working hard all week. If they meet down the line, I have confidence in Brooks...
TODD HINEGARDNER It's better and easier on the transmitter to be on the air 24 hours a day rather than shutting it do...
JIM BISHOP But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chai...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS People love sitting in this chair and I hope that we can give something back to the community.
FRANCIS SKRENES I saw him this afternoon, he was sitting up in a chair and he was in good spirits.
STAN ROBBS But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's ...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER He's not going to be sitting in a rocking chair. I can't wait to see what he's going to be doing.
HOWARD STARK The youngest guy I ever worked with who played at a successful level is Aaron Brooks in New Orleans....
MIKE MCCARTHY No matter where you go in this world, you will always find a Jew sitting in the beach chair next to ...
DON RICKLES He participated in physical therapy sessions yesterday morning and afternoon, sitting in a chair for...
JOANNE DRAKE I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put mak...
JAMES NESBITT I shot mom as she was sitting in the chair, ... It was an intentional murder, I intended to shoot th...
DAVID LUDWIG As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ign...
HUGHES MEARNS When I did the underwater, it was very awkward. You're sitting on a chair, and you feel like you're ...
KEITH HILL The last time I was sitting in this chair ... it was the day of my second interview. Did I think I w...
WAYNE KRIVSKY One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who playe...
JOSH CHARLES When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of ...
BILL BRYSON You remind me of an old lady that's past her prime that should be sitting home in a rocking chair do...
RICARDO MAYORGA Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to...
AMANDA PAYS My experience of fiction was, in the beginning, so exploratory. I wasn't sitting down to a desk ...
BILL CLEGG The groves of Blarney
They look so charming
Down by the purling
Of sweet, silent brooks.
RICHARD ALFRED MILLIKEN (MILLIKIN) The experienced players have to take the lead in not getting down and we did that. (The Black Bears)...
JUSTIN WILLIAMS It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNETT It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
ARNOLD BENNET It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at
the top.
ARNOLD BENNET A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Maria and Ashley Robinson clogged up the middle, coming up with some huge blocks down the stretch.
CARRIE GRAF He was sitting on a big chair, and gave us all rosary beads, ... It was a very special moment.
OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Its much more easier to know just one thing about everything in this universe than to know everythin...
OJAS VISHWAKARMA Brooks never impressed me because you were accustomed to him making the plays. This kid reminds me a...
FRANK ROBINSON I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
DAMIEN HIRST It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHER You rarely get satisfaction sitting in an easy chair. If you work in a garden on the other hand, and...
DAN BUETTNER They were not given as much information as someone not in a chair.
JOE WINCZE They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY SLYKE They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.
ANDY VAN SLYKE As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I jus...
HUGHES MEARNS He is responding to treatment and shows improvement every day. He is sitting in a chair reading his ...
PENNY CIRCLE Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brot...
ROGER STONE Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub.
ROBERT HUNTER Look at the names in the Jackie Robinson Wing, ... Steve Young, Dorothy Hamill. The Jackie Robinson ...
CALVIN MURPHY A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her ...
ANNE BISHOP The budget problem we can deal with, but let's get people in Michigan back to work. Having someone w...
DICK DEVOS The audience will feel like Chita is talking to them personally. It's not like a play. It's like thi...
GRACIELA DANIELE The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall...
BIBLE She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its...
ALI SMITH He is sitting in a chair reading his newspapers and we continue to anticipate a Thursday discharge. ...
PENNY CIRCLE Being here with Mindy is a lot easier because we're not staying in a shelter. Its depressing enough ...
CHARLETTE FORD Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British...
ROLAND JOFFE Not in my neighborhood, Mr. Robinson.
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO If it's sound in a structure, it's much easier a problem to solve. We know how to vibrate structures...
JON SNODGRASS For me [video blogging] is like a scrapbook. You have all these video tapes sitting around and have ...
MIKE B. SLONE Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair wa...
M. EMMET WALSH I do remember when it occurred to me the first time, when I got the idea of painting the way I feel ...
MARIA LASSNIG It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark
WILLIAM MCFEE I don't want to be someone sitting in my rocking chair at the end saying, 'Well, I passed....
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely ...
PATTY DUKE What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontan...
KEANU REEVES The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's alwa...
JERRY POURNELLE The phone rang. I picked it up.
“Are you sitting down?” Curran's voice asked.
“Yes...
ILONA ANDREWS You can't fail with linen. It gives the chair a European classic look of its own.
AMANDA PAYS I appreciate that [Robinson] told me exactly what I needed to do. That made it easier for me. It was...
BRANDON WATSON It's much easier to work with an unknown.
TAYLOR HACKFORD Brook! whose society the poet seeks,
Intent his wasted spirits to renew;
And whom the curious...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns.
The current that with gentle murmur glides,
Tho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wandered by the brook-side,
I wandered by the mill;
I could not hear the brook flow,
T...
RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, LORD HOUGHTON See, how the stream has overflowed
Its banks, and o'er the meadow road
Is spreading far and wi...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Sweet are the little brooks that run
O'er pebbles glancing in the sun,
Singing in soothing ton...
THOMAS HOOD From Helicon's harmonious springs
A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
THOMAS GRAY A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all nigh...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Gently running made sweet music with the enameled stones and
seemed to give a gentle kiss to every ...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR The music of the brook silenced all conversation.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road,
The secret scarcely lisping of thy b...
LUCY LARCOM The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done,
Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.
...
EBENEZER ELLIOTT ("THE CORN LAW RHYMER") All of these things reduce accidents, but they're being ignored because it's much easier to place a ...
ERIC SKRUM E*Trade was much easier,
BILL PORTER He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!
SAMUEL FOOTE The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witn...
ERNST ZUNDEL In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
NAMIE AMURO America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
ARNOLD TOYNBEE America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE 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
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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 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 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.
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