When we spoke, he told me, 'The Newsweek thing has changed the world.' And I said, 'Wasn't it 9/11 that changed the world?' But Michael said he just didn't want to take a chance.


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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