Brooks Quotes · Page 9

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

Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

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

— Frank Robinson

If we are indeed contending for truth and righteousness, let us not tarry till we have talent, or wealth, or any other…

— Anonymous

There are many writers who have influenced me and who I enjoy reading, but Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks are at the…

— Renee Watson

O let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment…

— John Keats

[I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get?…

— Lotte Lenya

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

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art…

— Nick Kroll

And Mel [Brooks] - you have to understand this important point - he had done "The Producers" for $50,000 over two years,…

— Gene Wilder

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

In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each…

— Khalil Gibran

I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire…

— Paul Auster

I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and…

— Judd Apatow

The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of…

— Jonathan Raban

I don't wear flip-flops, so my casual shoe is a Brooks Brothers tuxedo slipper!

— Zac Posen

I sailed on the North River last night with my flute, and my music was a tinkling stream which meandered with the…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

— Gene Wilder

A cat actually thinks visibly. If you watch him jump on a shelf, the wish to jump and the action of jumping…

— John Heilpern

It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a…

— R.D. Blackmore

I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys…

— Isla Fisher

Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

— Curt Gowdy

On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering,…

— Heinrich Heine

Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura…

— Flora Thompson

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