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Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league. -- Pete Rose
Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway. -- Dom DeLuise
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
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
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
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men. -- Aaron Staton
Albert Brooks is definitely one of my biggest influences, for sure. -- Jonah Hill
There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks! -- Henri Langlois
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work -- Tea Leoni
My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks. -- Robin Tunney
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
They wanted me to play third like Brooks so I did play like Brooks - Mel Brooks. -- Andy Van Slyke
And I had a big opportunity with Richard Brooks, The Professionals, which is really a magnificent movie. -- Claudia Cardinale
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety. -- Barry Levinson
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
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
Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. -- John Dryden
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
Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams -- Bill Simmons
Lecturing Brooks was as useful as lecturing a cat. -- Maureen Johnson
The only bipartisan place in D.C. is Brooks Brothers. -- Tony Hale
Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks -- Dan Brown
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. -- Thomas Gray
I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before 'Mad Men.' -- Aaron Staton
Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war. -- John Milton
I mean I would still love to be in Mel Brooks' movies; he's great. -- Armie Hammer
Milos Forman is a great director, Jim Brooks is a wonderful writer and director. -- Twyla Tharp
Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job. -- Martin Short
Jim Brooks is a very powerful director and it was a lot of intense work. -- Tea Leoni
Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly. -- Curt Gowdy
The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run. -- Ebenezer Elliott
About Antrax by Terry Brooks: I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu? -- James Nicoll
This isn't CM Punk talking to Triple H, this is Phil Brooks talking to Paul Levesque -- CM Punk
Player haters be givin' me harsh looks, But I'm tryin to sell records like Garth Brooks. -- Big L
I always liked Mitt Romney. He looks like the salesman who follows you around at Brooks Brothers. -- David Letterman
Sweet are the little brooks that run O'er pebbles glancing in the sun, Singing in soothing tones. -- Thomas Hood
Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers. -- Jim Craig
We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch. -- Shawn Wayans
Elwyn Brooks White was a very Maine personality which is, "I hate everyone and everyone stay away from me." -- John Hodgman
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. -- Myrlie Evers-Williams
I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers. -- Frank Robinson
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
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart." -- Calvin Klein
My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart. -- Calvin Klein
I was reading Carl Sandburg and Gwendolyn Brooks, and I'm still very, very deeply moved by Gwendolyn Brooks's life and her work. -- Sandra Cisneros
I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson. -- Earl Weaver
As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority. -- Gore Vidal
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
I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn. -- Ronnie Dunn
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963] -- John F. Kennedy
My favorite-ever version of 'King Lear' is the 1971 film by Peter Brooks. He has this enormous fur thing, and it adds enormous gravitas. -- Ben Mendelsohn
I'm a Joseph Abboud fan. I'm a Hugo Boss fan. I'm a Brooks Brothers fan. As far as suits go, those are my go-tos. -- Rich Sommer
I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics. -- Taylor Swift
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
I realise I'm behind on this but Rebekah Brooks was married to Ross Kemp of Gangs fame?! And she assaulted him? That explains so much. -- Mandy Wiener
I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box. -- Sparky Anderson
I would like Albert Brooks to have received the Oscars for best actor, best director and best screenplay for 'Modern Romance.' I love that movie. -- Andy Kindler
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. -- Carl Reiner
I first got involved with Mel Brooks through 'The Elephant Man.' Everybody knows now, but they didn't know at the time that he was the producer. -- John Hurt
Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity. -- Laura Moriarty
I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first. -- Sparky Anderson
I certainly didn't have New York Jewish humor. But I was in three Mel Brooks films so people thought I was a connoisseur of New York Jewish humor. -- Gene Wilder
Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing. -- Julie Andrews
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. -- Sharon Stone
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 most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks! -- Isla Fisher
No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool. -- Nick Kroll
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.' -- Earl Weaver
Because for that day, I really did become Lulu. Maybe not from the film or the real Louise Brooks, but my own idea of what Lulu represented. Freedom. Daring. Adventure. Saying yes. -- Gayle Forman
Brooks too wide for our leaping, hedges far to high. Loads too heavy for our moving, burdens too cumbersome for us to bear. Distances far beyond our journeying. The horse gave us mastery. -- Pam Brown
I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. ' -- Lev Grossman
I'm from Tullahoma, TN which is an hour south of Nashville, and I grew up and wanted to be like Garth Brooks, so I moved to Nashville when I was 18 to chase a dream. -- Dustin Lynch
I love all of Albert Brooks' work from 'Defending Your Life' back to his first film, 'Real Life', but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work. -- Douglas Wood
Tolkien is considered the grandfather of fantasy and, for me, I consider myself the grandson, with Terry Brooks as the kind of crazy uncle of fantasy, being the one who brought me into it. -- Peter V. Brett
The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting. -- Nancy Allen
I've always dressed the same. I've never made a fashion mistake. I've always worn utilitarian. I started my collection because I wanted certain specific things, but before that it was vintage and classic Brooks Brothers. -- Thom Browne
I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued. -- Laura Moriarty
In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece. -- Lauren Santo Domingo
The person who should really write an appreciation of the late great Dom DeLuise is Burt Reynolds, who, even more than Mel Brooks, made of the jolly, beanie wearing fat man a side-kick and a legend. -- Rich Cohen
My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though! -- Loudon Wainwright III
I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now. -- John Hughes
Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time. -- Stephen King
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr. -- Horton Foote
I think I have a finely tuned sense of humor. I think just being around it and growing up in it... my dad and Mel Brooks and Norman Lear. These are the people I grew up around. -- Rob Reiner
One of the perks of being an actor is to get to meet athletes that you respect. Especially who played before my time. Brooks Robinson is one of those athletes; they just don't make them any nicer. -- Josh Charles
My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person. -- Yara Shahidi
Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks -- Dan Brown
I think for Wes [Anderson] and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance. -- Owen Wilson
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 a stage with Mel Brooks, I'd have thought you were off your head. But these things can happen. -- John Gordon Sinclair
I would love to do a movie with Albert Brooks; we're so different, but I find him so funny, and I can be just as seemingly narcissistic as he comes off, the 'it's all about me' kind of thing. -- Chevy Chase
Make no mistake, this music is for everyone. Jazz is not an exclusive, elite club. Go ahead, listen to your Snoop Doggy Dog, Pearl Jam, Garth Brooks, but add a little Ellington, Basie and Coltrane to your life as well. -- Christian McBride
Weirdly, by the way,[Bob] Dylan also managed to write several beautiful love songs, like "To Make You Feel My Love" (covered by Adele, Garth Brooks, Billy Joel, and who knows who else) and "Most of the Time." Go figure. -- Jay Michaelson
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
I was miscast in that production [of Mother Courage and Her Children] ... but it was with Anne Bancroft, whose boyfriend at the time was Mel Brooks, and that made my - I can't say my day, it made my life, in a way. -- Gene Wilder
For a variety of reasons, my books struck the marketplace like a thunderclap; and one of those reasons was that there were so few alternatives available. Readers who loved Tolkien, and who were not satisfied by Terry Brooks, had nowhere else to turn. -- Stephen R. Donaldson
Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory." -- Terry Gross
I started in high school with a teacher there. I also took lessons at the Conservatory of Music in Detroit. Detroit was very motivating. There were a lot of local people who inspired me like Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers, Roy Brooks, Donald Byrd, etc. -- Yusef Lateef
I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars. -- Laura Moriarty
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland. -- Jane Hirshfield
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 Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs. -- Bruce McCall
We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time. -- Taraka Larson
The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better contrasts with vaguely similar culture differences - it's a nuttier movie, too. -- Wesley Morris
[ Zero Mostel] would tell anyone anything, not to be impolite, but he'd show that he wasn't at all afraid of however much money that person [had] or whatever title they had in a company. It didn't scare him. Mel [Brooks] was very much the same way. -- Gene Wilder
I remember seeing Airplane, and even Mel Brooks movies like History of the World Part I, and just really loving that style of movies that make fun of movies. I think it needs to be done. All of these movies are ripe for being poked at. -- Ashley Tisdale
I'm always begging people like James Brooks and Cameron Crowe to come to screenings, to see what they make of it, and they're always ridiculously helpful. They also keep me brave enough to commit to what I'm trying to do. They can be great cheerleaders for risk-taking. -- Judd Apatow
At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product. -- Colin Angle
Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song. -- Jake Owen
I tend to cut David Brooks more slack than most people I know do, and I do it for one main reason. He can write. He's the best writer on that page, and I'd usually rather read him than others on that page I'm more likely to agree with. -- Michael Tomasky
It would have been a great story if Brooks had went out there and scored 21 points, ... That would have been great theater. But the reality of that is very difficult, as we know, in this league for any QB when defense is playing good. And the Ravens played well. -- Herman Edwards
I met Mel [Brooks] backstage in Anne's [Bancroft] dressing room. He was wearing one of those pea coats, pea jackets that were made famous by the Merchant Marines, and I admired it and he said, "You know, they used to call this a urine jacket, but it didn't sell." -- Gene Wilder
Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books. -- Ishmael Reed
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s. -- John Cusack
Perhaps, after all, our best thoughts come when we are alone. It is good to listen, not to voices but to the wind blowing, to the brook running cool over polished stones, to bees drowsy with the weight of pollen. If we attend to the music of the earth, we reach serenity. And then, in some unexplained way, we share it with others. -- Gladys Taber
There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere. -- Mel Brooks
Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God! -- Mel Brooks
I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have to mean that, but it often seems to. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company. -- Mel Brooks
My movies were not reaping the kind of emotional rewards that I wanted. I wanted them to be appreciated and they weren't. I didn't want the reviews to say, "Mel Brooks has made another movie," and you get the title somewhere in the second paragraph. -- Mel Brooks
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers. -- Peter Shumlin
I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways. -- Derek Blasberg
You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball. -- Monte Irvin

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