The way we're going right now, we'll be lucky to have that record we did two years ago. I don't see any signs of a turnaround yet, unfortunately.


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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
First fight. Then fiddle.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poem...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it wer...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing t...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
We are each other's magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS
I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's ins...
SCOTT BROOKS
I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for ...
SCOTT BROOKS
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But i...
MEL BROOKS
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
PHILLIPS BROOKS
I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a...
ALBERT BROOKS
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
GARTH BROOKS
We rode pretty hard for about 30 or 40 kilometers, but eventually it got a bit disorganized. There w...
BEN BROOKS
It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it.
BEN BROOKS
We started to execute more and our team did not have as many turnovers. We just played better as a t...
BEN BROOKS
The sponsors were even more keen because they wanted to have more of a brand awareness down here.
BEN BROOKS
The Herald Sun Tour is one of the premier cycling events in Australia, so the boys and I are keen to...
BEN BROOKS
I was his host for nine Phoenix Opens and would fly him over in a private jet. I always tried to tel...
BEN BROOKS
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
BELLAMY BROOKS
I probably learned, being in 'Taxi Driver' before I made my first film, I would come to the ...
ALBERT BROOKS
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up hi...
MEL BROOKS
I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.
MEL BROOKS