Brooks Quotes

• I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

  Carl Sandburg

  Years, Editors, Two

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.146, University of Illinois Press

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• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Running, Nature

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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

  John Dryden

  Running, Rivers, Sea

  John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton (1811). “The Poetical Works of John Dryden: Containing Original Poems, Tales and Translations”, p.44

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

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Book, Reading, Lasts

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

  Barry Levinson

  Two, Anxiety, Chance

  Interview with Adrian Wootton at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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

  Andy Van Slyke

  Sports, Play, Wanted

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• I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.

  Illeana Douglas

  Real, Thinking, Night

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. September 22, 2003.

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• Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, League, Higher

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

  Tea Leoni

  Powerful, Directors, Intense

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

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• And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

  Mike Myers

  Dad, Two, Kind

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• 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

  Fans, May, Comedy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Robin Tunney

  Friends, Thinking, Snob

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

  Claudia Cardinale

  Opportunity, Bigs, Magnificent

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2003.

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

  Dom DeLuise

  Forever, Heaven, Broadway

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

  Thomas Hood

  Running, Sweet, Singing

  Thomas Hood, Francis James Child (1856). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.147

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

  Jonah Hill

  Influence

  "Jonah Hill On Set Interview Get Him To The Greek – Also Talks The Adventurer’s Handbook, His Career, Sequels, And So Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 13, 2010.

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• The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.

  Mel Brooks

  Book, Character, Max

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• 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

  Flow, Wheels, Sides

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• The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Running, Winter, Done

  Ebenezer Elliott (1876). “Poetical Works”, p.6

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• Thou hastenest down between the hills to meet me at the road, The secret scarcely lisping of thy beautiful abode Among the pines and mosses of yonder shadowy height, Where thou dost sparkle into song, and fill the woods with light.

  Lucy Larcom

  Beautiful, Song, Light

  Lucy Larcom (1881). “Wild Roses of Cape Ann: And Other Poems”

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• From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.

  Thomas Gray

  Spring, Progress, Thousand

  Thomas Gray (1836). “The works of Thomas Gray (ed. by J. Mitford).”, p.23

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• A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sleep, Night, June

  'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' (1798) pt. 5

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

  Leigh Hunt

  Lying, Sunny, Spots

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Leigh Hunt: Selected Writings”, p.40, Routledge

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• Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

  Bill Simmons

  Games

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• Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.

  Clara Mamet

  Timing, Faster, Dialogue

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