Mo Brooks Quotes

Film is the cheapest part of the movie making process. The expense is the 100-man crew and the financing and everything.

I'm a big consumer of news and I have my six newspaper sites booked. And what I like bout Twitter is it's almost, it allows me to make a comment about something that's just on my mind.

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

The battle is on, and nothing less than the soul of America is at stake.

Hold on to your dream. Don't let the people shake you from your dream.

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.

There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.

I could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.

I'm a Major League 3rd Baseman. If you want to go play in parking lot, I'm suppose to stop the ball.

I wouldn't mind seeing someone erase my record of hitting into four triple plays.

I believe in status symbols.

Americans live in a country where African-American young men are twenty-five times more likely to lose their lives at the hands of the police than their white counterparts.

I am really glad women are speaking out.

There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

One of the frustrations about the modern world is that we don't even have a good vocabulary to describe our state. The word sentiment sounds mushy. [...] Sentiment is not mushy.

Tim Kaine has been obviously a governor. He's been a senator. He's one of the smartest rising stars in the Democratic Party. He is very plausible as someone who could sit in and be president.

The people who really have character make deep, unshakable connections to something outside themselves.

I'm beginning to think [Ted] Cruz had a good convention, that if [Donald] Trump goes down, Cruz is pretty well positioned to be the Republican major figure in four, six or even within two years.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

I do think economic and social anxiety is the number one issue. And I'm pretty confident Hillary Clinton will be really riding that train pretty hard.

Pain now is better than pain deferred.

America has an important role to play as the world leader in creating a global order, free trade, free waterways, free commerce, free movement of people. That happens because of U.S. military might.

There is the English language and then there's the Trump language.

The three people who are most often talked about with Hillary Clinton, whether it's Tim Kaine or Vilsack or Cory Booker, they are three extremely nice people.

If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life on Wall Street and be a hero

If you're cutting deals with one company or another, eventually, there's going to be a quid pro quo. There's going to be a bribe. There's going to be something.

Every White House I have covered since Reagan, when I got here, power has been more concentrated in the White House than the one before.

I've come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose self-consciousness and become fused with other people, experiences, or tasks.

With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

If we are going to stop wars on this earth, we are going to have to make war on hunger our number one priority.

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Charter schools are public schools. They're paid for publicly and they're part of the public system. They just have a more independent structure.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

I don't think history will ever be a science because history will never be reduced to law-like behavior. People are to unpredictable.

If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

The moral foundation of the society, the way we interact with each other is more fundamental than the Supreme Court.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.