Mo Brooks Quotes

Bury the hatchet, but leave the handle sticking out.

Why should I waste my good time making a straight dramatic film? The people who can't make you laugh can do that.

Pray for and work for fullness of life above every thing; full red blood in the body; full honesty and truth in the mind; and the fullness of a grateful love for the Saviour in your heart.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all.

Life for my child is simple, and is good.

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater

Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid.

Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build.

Even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time.

We rest our case on the production numbers.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

I always thought it was great to be able to make people feel better. It was a little like being God.

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

When you get punched, you have to get up.You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

Predictability and great design are not friends.

If you need to raise funds from donors, you need to study them, respect them, and build everything you do around them.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Because some things are never meant to be anything more than a moment. And that was one of them.

There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.

Freedom without structure is its own slavery.

It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope.

Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

I think you have a pact with an audience in every picture, and I think the pact is to try and be truthful and to be real.

What comes from a book is knowledge. What comes from the heart is wisdom.

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me; it's a sign of security.

Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before.

Being brave is being scared and worried and still doing it [what you do]. Because if you're just a wacko, a mashugana, a crazy guy, then you're not brave, your nuts!

Dom DeLuise was a big man in every way. He was big in size and created big laughter and joy.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

My God, I'd love to smash into the casket of Dostoyevsky, grab that bony hand and scream at the remains, 'Well done, you god-damn genius.'

With the birth of the artist came the inevitable afterbirth... the critic

I don't think in terms of results at all. I think: what next insanity can I shock the world with?

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

We need to break free from the habits of mind and behavior, to discover the possibilities of who we can become.

Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.

Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of God's likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone.

I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.

All right, I am often brash, rude and brutally direct. Someday I'm going to die and I don't have time to toe-dance around the periphery of hatred.