Mo Brooks Quotes

You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

Associate with those who help you believe in yourself.

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.

If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

People loving people. That's the enemy of everything that's evil

Use your head; cut off theirs.

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Whatever bro, tell it to the whales

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.

So I think if you're happy with your brain, you're powerful.

If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.

I don't know that I can define fear. But one of the sources of fear is holding up some sort of model life that doesn't exist and feeling like you're far away from it.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.

It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us.

I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

I don't like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Every rep that you take off, somebody else gets another look. That's just how I am. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's a matter of being confident and not taking anything for granted.