Mo Brooks Quotes

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

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.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we're here and we're healthy.

Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.

Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head!

The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back.

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

A lot of alliteration from anxious anchors placed in powerful posts!

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it!

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man's shirt on its morning run.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

The reason I know you don't love me, is because the day I walked out your door, you didn't stop me.

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

Sometimes you need to run away just to see who will come after you.

You must have goals in your life, or otherwise be prepared to be used by those who do have them.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.