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Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams -- Bill Simmons
I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry. -- Stephen Merchant
Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on "West-Running Brook. -- Joseph Brodsky
I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family. -- Jennifer Damiano
I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. -- Brendan Fraser
When you make it to eighty-four, then you're ready to sit back and think universal and systematic. I was a philosophy major a long, long time ago. At Stony Brook. You had something to do with some state university school? -- Richard Meltzer
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. -- Alexander the Great
There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere. -- Dan Harmon
Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook. -- William C. Bryant
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness. -- Joseph Lancaster
The sensitive ear of the musician detects a certain musical note in every city which is different from that of another city. He hears in each little brook a new melody, and to him the sound of wind in the treetops of different forests give a varying sound. -- Max Heindel
Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege. -- Deborah Sampson
Physicians are like kings- They brook no contradiction. -- John Webster
Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. -- William Shakespeare
Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival. -- Thiruvalluvar
Education makes a straight ditch of a free meandering brook. -- Henry David Thoreau
The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks. -- Wallace Stegner
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood. -- William Cullen Bryant
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook. -- William Arthur Ward
This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm. -- Gautama Buddha
We are a water-drinking people, and we are allowing every brook to be defiled. -- George Bird Grinnell
Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. -- Henry David Thoreau
But what would interest you about the brook, It's always cold in summer, warm in winter. -- Robert Frost
Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain. -- James Hervey
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. -- Alexander Hamilton
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook! -- Leigh Hunt
By the wood-shed is a brook. It goes singing on. Its joy-song does sing in my heart. -- Opal Whiteley
Kill a man's family, and he may brook it, But keep your hands out of his breeches' pocket. -- Lord Byron
To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning. -- Oliver Herford
Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled. -- Hildegard of Bingen
Neither love nor ambition, as it has often been shown, can brook a division of its empire in the heart. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun! -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and rustle of the corn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from it. -- Washington Irving
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
If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event. -- Hal Borland
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 listen to the merry village chime. -- W.S. Gilbert
Mine be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook, that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. -- Samuel Rogers
Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound. -- Sarah Helen Whitman
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I. -- Horace Walpole
Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time. -- John Keats
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees. -- Tom Robbins
Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be. -- Malcolm Cowley
Scholars may quote Plato in studies, but the hearts of millions shall quote the Bible at their daily toil, and draw strength from its inspiration, as the meadows draw it from the brook. -- Moncure D. Conway
Who are the farmer's servants? ... Geology and Chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the cloud, the castings of the worm, the plough of the frost. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too. -- Charles Churchill
A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking. -- Joan Walsh Anglund
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself. -- Arthur W. Pink
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity! -- Thomas Jefferson
Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. -- Robert Frost
A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness." -- Joseph Lancaster
The "great tradition" does not brook even the possibility of libidinal gratification between the pages as an end in itself, and FR Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. -- F. R. Leavis

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