Mo Brooks Quotes

Things get very distorted when you do a movie, weirdly so.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

There comes a point where emotions must give way to objective facts.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Everything starts with writing.

I'm always stunned when I find out people like Roosevelt and Tolstoy weren't Jewish. How could I love them so much?

Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

Holding you, I held everything.

Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

Preaching is truth through personality.

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

The more games you coach, the more comfortable you feel.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

Life is like therapy - real expensive and no guarantees.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.

Your spouse should be just attractive enough to turn you on. Anything more is trouble.

The legs feed the wolf, gentlemen.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

I have always been a huge admirer of my own work. I'm one of the funniest and most entertaining writers I know.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government imploding - while letting us sleep at night.

We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

One day, God said 'Let there be prey.' And he created pigeons, rabbits, lambs and Gene Wilder.

The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts

Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe...Turn on the TV...What are you seeing? People selling their products? No. People selling the fear of you having to live without their products.

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God.

Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Artificial intelligence is a tool, not a threat

A man full of hope will be full of action.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

Truth is mighty and will prevail

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.