Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. — Andy Van Slyke Copy Share Image
I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like Garth Brooks,… — Dustin Lynch Copy Share Image
MY river runs to thee: Blue sea, wilt welcome me? My river waits reply. Oh sea, look graciously! I ’ll fetch thee… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers. — Jim Craig Copy Share Image
My influences as a comedian and filmmaker are Albert Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman and John Cassevettes. — Sam Seder Copy Share Image
“The conclusion is simple: if a 200-man project has 25 managers who are the most competent and experienced programmers, fire the 175… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. — Peter Shumlin Copy Share Image
If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and do comedy films. — Illeana Douglas Copy Share Image
My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't.… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
“I had to admit he looked nice. He has very regular features and straight teeth. I'd just read that even, regular features… — Natalie Standiford Copy Share Image
The natives are very exact and punctual in the bounds of their lands, belonging to this or that prince or people, even… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a working-class former apprentice electrician; at the age of 14, if you'd told me I would one day be standing on… — John Gordon Sinclair Copy Share Image
“For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Mel Brooks came to see Oh, Hello in L.A. Mulaney and I had a meeting with him, and we invited him to… — Nick Kroll Copy Share Image
Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green… — Bruce McCall Copy Share Image
Since Brooks Brothers is a 189-year-old company, there are plenty of references and inspirations I can draw from their archives and catalogs.… — Thom Browne Copy Share Image
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly… — Heinrich Harrer Copy Share Image
One of the signs of the imminent Apocalypse is the "bitterness of all waters," and anyone traveling through eastern Europe, the former… — Marq de Villiers Copy Share Image
Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has… — Skylar Grey Copy Share Image
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since. — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid… — Carl Reiner Copy Share Image
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps… — John Milton Copy Share Image
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the… — Renee Watson Copy Share Image
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can… — Chevy Chase Copy Share Image
I wandered by the brook-side, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Copy Share Image
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image