Brooks Quotes

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Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!

Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks.

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

Faith is an evil precisely because it requires no justification and brooks no argument.

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.

The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.

This isn't CM Punk talking to Triple H, this is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie.

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones.

The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers.

There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee brooks From spotted nooks,— Say, sea, Take me!

I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor.

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.

I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure.

The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.

Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work.

Miloš Forman is a great director; Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

But see, the shepherds shun the noonday heat, The lowing herds to murmuring brooks retreat, To closer shades the panting flocks remove; Ye gods! And is there no relief for love?

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.