Top 100 Quotes About Brooks
#1. She was carried along by events, not reflecting on them, just letting them sweep over her.
David Brooks
#2. I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.
Garth Brooks
#3. I think anger and laughter are very close to each other, when you think about it.
Albert Brooks
#4. The key is to integrate our art into our life, not the other way around.
Brooks Jensen
#5. Knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.
Max Brooks
#6. It's midnight Cinderella, but don't worry none. Cause I'm Peter the Pumpkin Eater and the party's just begun.
Garth Brooks
#7. Every advance [in Science] will most likely tell us as much about ourselves as it will about the universe we inhabit. We are all collections of chemicals made in the cataclysmic explosions of stars; we are stardust, or nuclear waste, depending on your perspective.
Michael Brooks
#8. I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.
Albert Brooks
#9. So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts of the dead would be ever at hand.
Geraldine Brooks
#10. You're looking for players whose name on the front of the sweater is more important than the one on the back. I look for these players to play hard, to play smart and to represent their country.
Herb Brooks
#11. I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.
Meredith Brooks
#12. Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.
Albert Brooks
#13. Man's holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man's greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
Thomas Brooks
#14. And yet what manner of man would I be, who has so much to say in the contest of words, if now I shirked this contest of blood?
Geraldine Brooks
#15. What line separates the lawful wartime targeting of an enemy combatant from the extrajudicial murder of a man suspected, but not convicted, of wrongdoing? (p8)
Rosa Brooks
#16. Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night." You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#17. Consider me no fool because my tongue is mad. I salt a truth with jest that it sound not dull and heavy. There is more than jig and cadence in my words. I am of stronger fiber than you think. If there comes a time for proof I shall not fail.
Charles S. Brooks
#18. From there, the future is a place that looks darker every day.
Geraldine Brooks
#19. My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
Mel Brooks
#20. A long time ago god chose you, today remember to choose Him.
Gerald Brooks
#21. Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead.
Louise Brooks
#22. When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
Thomas Brooks
#23. I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.
Scott Brooks
#24. If we see too much of one person, even though we like that person, we start to kind of pull for other people.
Garth Brooks
#25. Ill just say whats in my heart: Ba-bump, ba-bump, ba-bump.
Mel Brooks
#27. If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.
Garth Brooks
#28. The essential tendency of life is toward happiness ... Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.
Phillips Brooks
#29. I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.
Meredith Brooks
#30. Sometimes we just have to trust that time and fate will bring us back to where we are supposed to be. Sometimes patience and belief are all we have.
Terry Brooks
#31. It was me, only me. Self-contained, self-reliant, and always, unquestionably self-assured.
Max Brooks
#32. Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen.
L.T. Brooks
#34. aridity of her own marriage at that point or her profound
David Brooks
#35. In this method, you don't ask, What do I want from life? You ask a different set of questions: What does life want from me? What are my circumstances calling me to do? In this scheme of things we don't create our lives; we are summoned by life.
David Brooks
#36. Personally, I could have cared less.
Max Brooks
#37. Trash talk ... Washington floats on a river of aspersion.
David Brooks
#38. Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.
Richard Dawkins
#39. She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#40. I don't think the Palestinians are in this position they're in, divided with Hamas and the P.A., unwilling to allow - or recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
David Brooks
#41. You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.
Max Brooks
#42. We don't ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#43. Our willingness to embrace the realities of our neighbor's difficulty is what empowers our witness and makes our testimony of Christ effective and hearable.
Christopher W. Brooks
#44. He walked to Brooks's, intending to drink a glass of port, eat a joint of beef, and read the Times. But
even at his club, surrounded by all the trappings of the honorable British gentleman, he still longed for the
forbidden fruit; he still hungered for the hot, sweet kisses of an Italian girl.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#45. If they would put love of truth above love of career.
David Brooks
#47. For poor parents trapped in dangerous and underperforming urban school systems, it is pretty clear that school choice works.
Arthur Brooks
#48. If you live in a society like ours, in which people seldom object if they hear someone taking the Lord's name in vain but are outraged if they see a pregnant woman smoking, then you are living in a world that values the worldly more than the divine.
David Brooks
#49. under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.
Geraldine Brooks
#51. Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.
James L. Brooks
#52. I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
Albert Brooks
#53. Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.
Brooks Atkinson
#54. What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it.
James L. Brooks
#55. Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
Mel Brooks
#56. Whatever bro, tell it to the whales
Max Brooks
#57. Now thyself is more important than Know thyself.
Mel Brooks
#58. I don't experience basic human emotions. It's not my thing.
Albert Brooks
#59. I've always liked to think ahead. Not stupid-far ahead. A hundred years doesn't interest me. But 20 years interests me, and more for what happens to humans as opposed to things.
Albert Brooks
#60. I have lived most of my life in soldiers' camps. I know what they saw. I know how they think. Their confidence sours as sudden as curdled milk.
Geraldine Brooks
#61. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.
Mel Brooks
#62. No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
Phillips Brooks
#63. There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
Geraldine Brooks
#64. I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.
Albert Brooks
#65. Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#66. I laughed. "What the hell are you learning from Ebony?" "How to be a strong black woman?" I
Adrianne Brooks
#67. The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.
Rebekah Brooks
#68. For a fleeting moment, I wondered how he turned out so untamed, so free, coming from such a refined and wealthy setting.
Alessia Dickson
#69. Screenwriting is no more complicated than old French torture chambers, I think. It's about as simple as that.
James L. Brooks
#70. In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.
Brooks Atkinson
#71. I'm a big movie fan. After a show, if I'm on the bus or a plane, it's often hard to get to sleep, so I'll watch a film. An action film can even relax me.
Garth Brooks
#72. Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.
Louise Brooks
#73. What they didn't want to believe, what they tried repeatedly to dismiss, was that whatever good and evil existed in the world came from within themselves and not from some abstract source.
Terry Brooks
#74. The reason I know you don't love me, is because the day I walked out your door, you didn't stop me.
Lisa Brooks
#75. The bar is high. But now you have a ladder.
Larry Brooks
#76. What we have in life that we can count on is who we are and where we come from, she thought absently. For better or worse, that is what we have to sustain us in our endevors, to buttress us in our darker moments, and to remind us of our identity. Without those things, we are adrift.
Terry Brooks
#77. There are 30 great jobs in the NBA, and I've got one of them.
Scott Brooks
#78. You should start your life with the illusion that you are completely in control of what you do. You should finish life with the recognition that, all in all, you got better than you deserved.
David Brooks
#79. Being a screenwriter in Hollywood is like being a eunuch at an orgy. Worse, actually, at least the eunuch is allowed to watch.
Albert Brooks
#81. I don't feel unfriendly, ma'am," said Mrs. Wiggins. "Only towards Mr. Margarine. You know very well why." Mrs.
Walter R. Brooks
#82. Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Brooks Adams
#83. Come, come," said Mrs. Wiggins. "Stop your fighting, animals. If there are swallows in that chimney, it means that there hasn't been a fire built in the house in a long time. And that means that nobody lives there. Let's get inside." Bang,
Walter R. Brooks
#84. Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.
Max Brooks
#85. Survival is the key word to remember - not victory, not conquest, just survival.
Max Brooks
#86. What we did, what every president since Washington has done, was provide a measured, appropriate response, in direct relation to a realistic threat assessment.
Max Brooks
#87. Books are meat and medicine
and flame and flight and flower
steel, stitch, cloud and clout,
and drumbeats on the air.
Gwendolyn Brooks
#88. If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that person or the emotions she experienced when learning of the subject's death.
David Brooks
#89. Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.
Garth Brooks
#90. In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation.
David Brooks
#91. If a person ever came to me as a fan and tried to go out on a date, I wouldn't. I've had enough kind of crazy experiences in that department.
Meredith Brooks
#92. They turn nature into an achievement course, a series of ordeals and obstacles they can conquer. They go into nature to behave unnaturally. In nature animals flee cold and seek warmth and comfort. But Bobo naturalists flee comfort and seek cold and deprivation.
David Brooks
#94. She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.
Geraldine Brooks
#96. The natural human reaction is to greet hatred with hatred, revenge by revenge. That's the natural genetic reaction.
David Brooks
#97. God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
Thomas Brooks
#98. I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.
James L. Brooks
#99. You're a dead man," Kyle said. "Warren doesn't take kindly to people who hurt me.
Patricia Briggs
#100. I was drawn to love songs, but I was just drawn to great music - no matter if it's hip-hop, pop, R&B or whether it's rock n' roll or country. It could be a Garth Brooks song, and if it's a smash, then I'll love the different wordplay and different melodies. That's what I'm a fan of - great music.
Nayvadius Cash
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