Brooks Quotes · Page 12

Every time I hear a Garth Brooks record I tend to want to hear James Taylor.

— Marty Stuart

Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

— William Arthur Ward

You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could…

— Monte Irvin

Nobody is expecting us to do anything. We can't let that perception become our reality, because with the ability on this team,…

— Vinny Testaverde

I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop…

— Sparky Anderson

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

— John Dryden

I will tell you where there is power: where the dew lies upon the hills, and the rain has moistened the roots…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

The most fun I ever had on a movie was working with Albert Brooks. He's the caviar of comedy. I mean, nobody's…

— Sharon Stone

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like…

— Allen Ginsberg

Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With…

— John Donne

I remember reading Dave Barry for the first time and being like oh my God I can't believe you can do this.…

— Nicholas Stoller

Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by…

— Jay Michaelson

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

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I met the pianist Barry Harris when I was about fifteen. He would show me changes, which I had no idea existed.…

— Charles McPherson

Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,…

— William Wordsworth

I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at…

— Gene Wilder

I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on…

— Derek Blasberg

I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that…

— Douglas Wood

Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow…

— Sarah Helen Whitman

I closed my eyes, put my right hand on top of the book, and passed it lightly across the cover. It was…

— Katherine Hannigan

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off.…

— Carl Sandburg

I feel like I am campaigning door to door. You just can't step out of a band like Brooks & Dunn and…

— Ronnie Dunn

I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are…

— Rich Sommer

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no…

— Mel Brooks