Mo Brooks Quotes
I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!
I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
If I have any talent at all it's from God, and my mom, who was on Capitol Records also.
I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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.
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.
The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.
It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.
I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to.
THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.
A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
What kind of world permitted such terrible injustice, where good men were stripped of everything and soulless creatures of malice and hatred survived to glory in their pointless death?
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.
Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.
Be courageous. Be independent. Only remember where the true courage and independence come from.
I've always said when I broke in I was an average player. I had an average arm, average speed and definitely an average bat. I am still average in all of those.
The place where two friends first met is sacred to them all through their friendship, all the more sacred as their friendship deepens and grows old.
I don't have to accept what you think I should look like and I do not accept what you think I should look like.
. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.
