Mo Brooks Quotes

The crazy thing about it is she'd take him back, but the fool in him that walked out is the fool who just won't ask.

The blues will be blue, and the jealousies green, but when love picks its color it demands to be seen.

What I do is so this world will know that it will not change me.

I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

How you ever gonna know if you're the best? How you ever gonna know what you believe in, if you don't put it to the test?

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

When the skies and the oceans are clean again. Then we shall be free.

Life is only therapy.

There's times I'd rather kill you than listen to your honesty.

Dreams can come true with God's great angels like you.

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!

I'm not sure how we exist, as an artist, without country radio.

Most people grow only large enough to solve their problems - not to reach their potential.

A long time ago god chose you, today remember to choose Him.

If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women.

The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house.

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.

I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world as he illuminated it, the light in my own mind rekindled.

The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

You're only as good as your values.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be.

I always believe you can't kill good movies, because somebody's in some room and will die unless it gets made.

Great things that can happen when you're doing a movie.

When you produce and direct your own film you havethe somewhat consoling feeling that the producer will kill for you.

Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy.

I have a lot of nightmares.

What do we do with ourselves when we find we have failed to become the adults we dreamed as pious children?

It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

The sadness, the silence, the darkness, the loneliness... all of it held in a simple little moment. It was just so... I don't know. Just so much.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.

I'm still living it now, every day, living it out in my mind - following the ups and downs, walking the pathways, reliving the moments of our Moonlight World... It's a day that never dies.