Top 286 Brooks Quotes & Sayings

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

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

Mo Brooks is serious about making sure we fulfill our campaign promises ,and if anyone is willing to stand up to Leader McConnell on behalf of the people of Alabama it's Mo Brooks.

Tony Todd, Avery Brooks and Cirroc Lofton were wonderful.

I don't care if people remember Garth Brooks.

If God had wanted to be a big secret, He would not have created babbling brooks and whispering pines.

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

Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

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

There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.

I've played with the best drummers in rock, ranging from Josh Freese to Brooks Wackerman to even Dave Lombardo.

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

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

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

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

We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.

I'm such an old fart that I started buying books on film and TV and radio and music when, for television, the entire shelf of books was only a couple of them. You go into the '70s before you start getting books on TV that you start wanting to collect. And by the time that you get to something like the Brooks and Marsh book it's invaluable. My house got hit by lightning in 1989 and burned down. And I got more than a half dozen Brooks and Marsh books sent to me by friends immediately, as though that's what you need more than clothes or food. That's how treasured that book was.

Mel Brooks is one of the few authentic geniuses working in comedy in America today.

My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart.

I was a huge Garth Brooks fan.

I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work.

I used to buy all my shirts at Brooks Brothers, but that was completely ruined about 20 years ago. They discontinued the shirt I liked. If I had only known this - I mean, if you're going to discontinue an item that thousands and thousands of people buy, announce it. Say, 'We will no longer be making our excellent Brooks Brothers cotton shirts that we made for 5,000 years. We're going to change them in some awful way. We're alerting you so you can buy a lifetime supply.' Shirts don't go bad, they're not peaches.

Brooks Ashmanskas - rehearsing and putting on a show can be very stressful and exhausting, but Brooks makes every moment a joyride. His influence taught me to never take myself or what I'm doing too seriously.

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

I think a fight with Will Brooks would be nice.

I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.

My influences as a comedian and filmmaker are Albert Brooks, Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Andy Kaufman and John Cassevettes.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

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

About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?

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

Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.

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

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

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

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

'The Book of Love' is the kind of James L. Brooks mainstream movie that the majors are ignoring.

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

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.

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

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.

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

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

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

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

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

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

I got everything I wanted from my parents: Brooks Brothers sweaters and Spalding saddle shoes.

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

I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great.

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

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

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

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

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.'

I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers.