FastSaying

This is my 25th book over 28 years, and to still be able to write a book and be a best seller again is remarkable. I'm impressed, myself, and very grateful.


Terry Brooks

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.
PETER MILLIGAN If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I then plan to seclude myself and write a book about my experience,
ERIC LATHAM One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the sam...
JUSTIN CRONIN Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to wri...
MALCOLM COWLEY Be kind and considerate with your criticism. . . . It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to...
MALCOLM COWLEY I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, a...
CHARLES MCCARRY So this is going to be drill!?
DEYTH BANGER Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I am what I have ever read
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The power of the writer is to capture the thoughts live and present them as they appeared in his min...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The world would have been a better place if some men had just shut their mouths.
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A writer is a thought smith; he educates men to think for themselves
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA One author said "I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It's hard to...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Don't believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not ...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The power of a writer is that he is a god of sorts. He can create his own worlds and populate them w...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Sometimes I have a good idea, something I wish I could remember, and instead of writing it down, com...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to...
MALCOLM COWLEY If life is a book we write, it should be a book of dreams. And even if they don’t all come true, a...
EYTAN ROCKAWAY The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA This is my life's work. It is a user's manual to the human being, a parenting book ... and how to be...
FAYE SNYDER While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and...
PATRICK DEWITT 'The Battle of Dorking' was reprinted as a book and became a best-seller.
TOM REISS When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho...
JAMES FREY I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller. It was my first popular bo...
STEPHEN HAWKING It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.
THOMAS KELLER If you are afraid of the critics you will never write a word
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo...
GARTH NIX One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored v...
TIBOR FISCHER When I wrote the first Betsy book, 'Undead and Unwed,' I had no idea, none, that it would be...
MARYJANICE DAVIDSON To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not...
MARIA MITCHELL I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and ...
CHRIS PRENTISS I'm not a good enough actor anymore to be able to stand up here and make you believe that I haven't ...
RON HOWARD I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say,...
FRANK MCCOURT Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish t...
EVE BUNTING I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address bo...
BRIAN L. ROBERTS My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
KAREN ROBARDS We write, not because we claim to know more than others, but perhaps because we want to know more th...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good bo...
DAVID LEVITHAN Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL To be able to come back to my hometown and be a part of showing these kids they can be a part of wha...
JACOB TAMME I want to write a best-selling book.
DIANE ABBOTT I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
CARL VAN DOREN A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
CARL DOREN A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
W. E. B. DU BOIS To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers t...
NEEL MUKHERJEE For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the...
JAN KARON The best book a writer can ever write is a book that chooses its readers, not the other way around.
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I ...
ERICA JONG I am very honored and humbled to be doing a book signing right here in my own hometown, ... Out of a...
DON PIPER It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of b...
GEORGE ORWELL You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and r...
ANTONY BEEVOR How to be a Poet (to remind myself)

Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early i...
RACHEL CUSK The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I'll be taking my autograph book and I won't quite know where to put myself,
ANDREW FLINTOFF I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you.
SULLY TARNISH When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI It's been a fantastic best seller. I think it has been, given our expectations, a success, and we ex...
DAVID ROSENTHAL It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso...
PATRICK DUFFY I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
CHARLAINE HARRIS God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spok...
A. W. TOZER I think most people who write want to write, so that's what they do, ... I hope that this is a book ...
LAURA EVANS A book is a gift you can open again and again.
GARRISON KEILLOR My first book was a huge seller-I think it's approaching 8 million copies worldwide now, which means...
NICHOLAS SPARKS When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR The seller of the book keeps $2.26 to cover their costs to ship the book to the customer. If it cost...
DREW HERDENER It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.
CHRIS ALBRECHT For many years, when still a Yugoslav citizen, I was already a Swiss patriot, and in 1959, I obtaine...
VLADIMIR PRELOG Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author po...
KYTKA HILMAR-JEZEK It takes a week to write a book, but it takes years to write a good one.
M.F. MOONZAJER How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life is a book, you are the author. Learn to write the book before your mistakes and you shall have ...
ALEX RJ SARANPA People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL

More Terry Brooks

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY 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 In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardbo...
TERRY BROOKS Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imaginat...
TERRY BROOKS We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems no...
TERRY BROOKS She has her gown nicely in place tonight, doesnt she? Black velvet and sparkles, not a thread left h...
TERRY BROOKS I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary wo...
TERRY BROOKS Miles saw him as a grief-stricken recluse, hiding from the world while he mourned his dead wife. May...
TERRY BROOKS A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
TERRY BROOKS Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost. Visions born of fear give birth to our failing. TERRY BROOKS If I have the means, I have the responsibility to employ them.
TERRY BROOKS Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
TERRY BROOKS Who would you be but who you are?
TERRY BROOKS And yet it had come to this: a cult that followed a dogmatic hard line of exclusion and repression, ...
TERRY BROOKS The community, the city that I live in, we're trying to clean the community up, to bring it up, ... ...
TERRY BROOKS It's getting to a point where, I'm just hanging my head. I don't know how to respond to it.
TERRY BROOKS It gets out of the waste stream, out of the landfills.
TERRY BROOKS If you live in the right county and get the right worker, you're going to win.
TERRY BROOKS They can do 40 a day, and we believe we're going to get up to 80 a day before too long.
TERRY BROOKS We'll be able to do something with these instead of grind 'em up.
TERRY BROOKS what happens when a world destroys itself and must rebuild.
TERRY BROOKS Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
TERRY BROOKS Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.
TERRY BROOKS It wasn’t simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his...
TERRY BROOKS My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.
TERRY BROOKS I am incomplete without my work. I am so closely bound to it, so much identified by it, that without...
TERRY BROOKS Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibi...
TERRY 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 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 When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT 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 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