Mo Brooks Quotes

I can write songs without a guitar.

Everything I'm doing now is something I did before, only it's bigger now.

I love Chrissie Hynde and Mick Jagger. Someone at Capitol pointed out how much my inflections are similar to Jagger's.

I quickly learned to take anger and use it to motivate me. My sister ran away from home, and she was my world. And that was that. The guitar became my world.

I think people are basically unhappy working their jobs, and we all need to have that thing that gets our juices flowing.

I was either going onstage or going into an interview or getting on a plane. You can't really feel everything fully when you don't have the time to process.

I want to embrace all of this: touring, going to Europe, Canada, Australia. I want to travel the world, just have a great hang, and hopefully, be a messenger.

I would hope that wherever Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, and Fiona get played is where I'd be played. And right now that seems to be the modern Adult Contemporary market.

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.

I like my lyrics to feel conversational and truthful, as if we're having real talk. I don't really like generic lyrics.

If a person ever came to me as a fan and tried to go out on a date, I wouldn't. I've had enough kind of crazy experiences in that department.

Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.

I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

Love and generosity are the simplest forms of peace.

When I was growing up, we always had music playing in our household. I enjoy spending time with my father singing.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

The man, who has begun to live more seriously within, begins to live more simply without.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

There is a necessary limit to our achievement, but none to our attempt.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Heaven is not to sweep our truths away, but only to turn them till we see their glory, to open them till we see their truth, and to unveil our eyes till for the first time we shall really see them.

Never be afraid to bring the transcendent mysteries of our faith, Christ's life and death and resurrection, to the help of the humblest and commonest of human wants.

No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

The Saviour comes in the strength of righteousness. Righteousness is at the bottom of all things. Righteousness is thorough; it is the very spirit of unsparing truth.

Christianity knows no truth which is not the child of love and the parent of duty.

The essential tendency of life is toward happiness . . . . Optimism is the only true condition for a reasonable man.

The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

O Risen Christ! O Easter Flower! How dear Thy Grace has grown! From east to west, with loving power, Make all the world Thine own.

Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."

Joy in one's work is the consummate tool.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

There is such a difference between coming out of sorrow thankful for relief, and coming out of sorrow full of sympathy with and trust in Him who has released us.

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

We have paid the police for information in the past.

It’s very difficult to trace convicted paedophiles

I was the editor of the News of the World; I was the editor of the Sun and chief executive.

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

When people lose faith in the idea, you have to let them go, because they start to undermine it for everyone else.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.