Brooks Quotes - Page 8

• 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.

  Carl Reiner

  People, Three, World

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• One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer.

  Josh Charles

  Athlete, Actors, Perks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

  William Wordsworth

  Music, Running

  William Wordsworth (1828). “The Poetical Works”, p.227

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• Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Clouds, Air

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.675, Modern Library

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• Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook.

  William C. Bryant

  Spring, Eye, Water

  William Cullen Bryant, “Oh Fairest Of The Rural Maids”

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• What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward the middles of ponds or sent down autumn brooks, holding treasures of acorns, or black feathers, or a puzzled mantis? Let those grassy crafts be listed alongside the iron hulls that cleave the sea, for they are all improvisations built from the daydreams of men, and all will perish, whether from the ocean siege or October breeze.

  Paul Harding

  Ocean, Autumn, Men

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• It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.

  Edith Schaeffer

  Dream, Creativity, Frustration

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• Name me no names for my disease,
  With uninforming breath;
  I tell you I am none of these,
  But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,
  For brooks that I had crossed,
  Before I met this flesh and bone
  And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last,
  Yet name no name of ills.
  Say only, “Here is where he passed,
  Seeking again those hills.

  Witter Bynner

  Heart, Names, Disease

  Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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• The woods were made for the hunters of dreams,
  The brooks for the fisher of song;
  To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game
  The streams and the woods belong.
  There are thoughts that moan from the soul of the pine
  And thoughts in a flower-bell curled;
  And the thoughts that are blown with the scent of the fern
  Are as new and as old as the world.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dream, Song, Flower

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• 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.'

  Earl Weaver

  Sports, Games, Psychology

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• God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Truth, Dark, Evil

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.201

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• When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Cutting, Loss, Village

  William Schwenck Gilbert, “The Policeman's Lot”

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• When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Sweet, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, Modern Library

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• A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping are one and the same thing... It's in exactly the same way that all Brook's exercises try to train the actor. The actor is trained to become so organically related within himself, he thinks completely with his body. He becomes one sensitive, responding whole... The whole of him is one.

  John Heilpern

  Cat, Exercise, Thinking

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

  Earl Weaver

  Thinking, Years, Speech

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• Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea, the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Kings, Memories

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• To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.

  Oliver Herford

  Women, Sound, Noise

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• Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

  Alexander the Great

  Two, Heaven, Political

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• Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

  John Milton

  War, Heaven, Violence

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.399

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• I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was cool and smooth like a stone from the bottom of the brook, and it stilled me. A whole other world is inside there, I thought to myself, and that's where I want to be.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Book, Eye, Hands

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• Narrative should flow as flows the brook down through the hills and the leafy woodlands...a brook that never goes straight for a minute, but goes and goes briskly, sometimes ungrammatically, and sometimes fetching a horseshoe of ¾ of a mile around and at the end of the circuit flowing within a yard of the path that it traversed an hour before; but always going and always following at least one law, always loyal to that law, the law of narrative, which has no law. Nothing to do but make the trip; the how of it is not important, so that the trip is made.

  Mark Twain

  Law, Important, Loyal

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• A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

  Farid al-Din Attar

  Kings, Men, Grieving

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• But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires: To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To know the pain of too much tenderness. To be wounded by your own understanding of love; And to bleed willingly and joyfully. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving; To rest at noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy; To return home at eventide with gratitude; And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise on your lips.

  Khalil Gibran

  Running, Spiritual, Song

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lonely, Horse, Stars

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

  Lev Grossman

  Reading, Book, School

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